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California DOC Settles With PLN Over Restrictive Publications Policies: Changes Regulations, Pays Damages
Loaded on May 15, 2007
by John Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2007, page 34
Filed under:
Publications/Books,
Mail Regulations,
Due Process,
Media,
PLN Litigation.
Location:
California.
by John E. Dannenberg
On December 19, 2006, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) settled with Prison Legal News (PLN) over PLN's complaints of CDCR's restrictive publications-approval policies for California state prisoners. On April 12, 2007, PLN filed the complaint in federal district court in Oakland giving the ...
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