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Racial Segregation in Kansas Jail Unconstitutional

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Discrimination, Racial Discrimination. Location: Kansas.

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that racial segregation of
prisoners at Kansas' Wyandotte County Jail was unconstitutional. The
District Court found "assignment to one of the two tanks [an East tank and
a West tank] is made upon a racial basis, with Negroes generally being
assigned to the ...

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