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Court Okay Needed Before Housing Mentally Ill Prisoners in California Supermax
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2003, page 27
Court Okay Needed Before Housing Mentally Ill Prisoners in California Supermax
The US District Court (E.D. Calif.) issued an order preventing the CA Dept. of Corrections (CDC) from housing mentally ill prisoners in its psychologically isolating and debilitating new "supermax" administrative segregation cells at Corcoran State Prison, unless CDC first ...
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