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MS Jail Officials Held in Contempt
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1995, page 17
In l978 prisoners at the Madison County jail in Mississippi filed a class action suit challenging conditions at the jail. Prior to going to trial the parties negotiated a consent decree incorporating a wide range of issues, everything from racial discrimination to the types of combs that prisoners at the ...
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Totality of Conditions,
Contempt (Civil Procedure),
Consent Decrees.
Location:
Mississippi.
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