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California Death Row Court Monitoring Discontinued
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2009
by Michael Brodheim
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2009, page 31
Almost thirty years after it began, federal court supervision over conditions at San Quentin’s death row – the nation’s largest, now housing 685 condemned prisoners – came to an end in April 2009.
Filed under:
Consent Decrees (PLRA),
Civil Procedure,
Consent Decrees,
Death Row.
Location:
California.
A group of death-sentenced prisoners filed suit in 1979 complaining about filthy and decrepit conditions on death ...
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