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New York DOCS Settles Welfare Suit; Bans Welfare for Work Release Prisoners
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2001, page 23
In the April 2001 issue of PLN we reported Friedl v. City of New York , 210 F.3d 79 (2nd Cir. 2000) in which Walter Friedl, a New York Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) prisoner on work release filed suit after he was infracted and his work release status terminated ...
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