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Pro Se Tips and Tactics: Limiting the Burdens of Pro Se Inmate Litigation
Loaded on June 15, 1998
by John Midgley
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1998, page 6
Review of Limiting The Burdens Of Pro Se Inmate Litigation: A Technical Assistance Manual For Courts, Correctional Officials, And Attorneys General , by Lynn S. Branham (American Bar Association, 1997).
Filed under:
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Reviews,
Restraints,
Court Access.
Location:
United States of America.
Given all the anti-prisoner publicity that usually surrounds discussions of pro se prisoner litigation, the use of the phrase "limiting ...
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