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Federal Court Lets BOP Withhold Mortality Reviews Under FOIA
Loaded on March 1, 2025
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2025, page 56
Filed under:
Prison/Jail Murders,
Wrongful Death,
Bureau of Prisons (BOP),
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Location:
District of Columbia.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held on August 1, 2024, that mortality reviews prepared by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) following a prisoner’s in-custody death may properly be withheld or heavily redacted in response to a request made under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), ...
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