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Women Prisoners in Alabama Win Preliminary Injunctive Relief
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2003, page 31
The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama granted a motion for a preliminary injunction after a group of female prisoners complained that the state operated the women's prisons in an unconstitutionally unsafe manner. The Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women is located in Wetumpka, Alabama, about 115 miles ...
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