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Indiana Prisoner Entitled to Seek Public Prison Records

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2009

Filed under: Civil Procedure, Frivolous Litigation, Disclosure of Records. Location: Texas.

Indiana’s Third District Court of Appeals held it was error to dismiss a prisoner’s complaint seeking to compel prison officials to allow him to inspect and copy public records.
In 2004, Eric D. Smith, a prisoner at Indiana’s Maximum Control Facility at Westville Correctional Facility (MCF), request prison officials to ...

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