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Prison Discrimination Illegal

Loaded on Sept. 15, 1991 published in Prison Legal News September, 1991, page 6
Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Work, Prison Labor. Location: New York.
Mark Labounty, a black New York state prisoner fled suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming violation of his Eight amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment and his right to equal protection of the law because he was denied work as a prison electrician while white ...

 

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