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Los Angeles County Settles Parolee's Overdetention Suit For $80,000
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2005, page 26
Los Angeles County paid $80,000 to settle a California parolee'soverdetention suit that alleged failure to process release information for one week.
On June 4, 2001, William Green was arrested by his parole agent on a violation for failing to register as a sex offender. On July 6, 2001, he ...
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