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Preliminary Injunction Automatically Expired in 90 Days for Alabama Women Prisoners
Loaded on June 15, 2004
by Bob Williams
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2004, page 35
The U.S. District Court for the
Filed under:
Overcrowding,
PLRA,
Injunctions (PLRA),
Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's.
Location:
Michigan.
Middle District of Alabama has brought to a halt prospective relief from unconstitutional conditions at an Alabama state women's prison because a previously entered preliminary injunction was allowed to expire under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA).
As reported in the September 2003 issue ...
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