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Prisoners Held Beyond Release Date Sue
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1997, page 14
Four civil rights attorneys filed suit against Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman Block and other officials for falsely imprisoning thousands of people each year by holding them beyond their scheduled release dates. "We intend to seek an injunction under the taxpayer action and force Sheriff Block to stop this wasteful ...
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