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Sixth Circuit Upholds $385,000 Contempt Sanction Against Michigan DOC

Prison officials were fined $38500, at a rate of $500 a day, for failure to provide programming to female prisoners equivalent to that for male prisoners, as required by its prior orders.

The imposition of contempt sanctions is reviewed for abuse of discretion, with factual findings reviewed for clear error. ...

 

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