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With Help from ACLU, Parolee Wins $10,000 Settlement Plus $100,000 in Attorney Fees
Loaded on Sept. 4, 2018
by Derek Gilna
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2018, page 58
Filed under:
Parole,
Parole Conditions,
Denial of Religious Services,
Religious Practices.
Location:
California.
by Derek Gilna
After serving a 16-year sentence for forcible sodomy and forcible oral copulation, California state prisoner Sherman D. Manning was released on parole in February 2016 under the custody of the state’s Division of Adult Parole Operations. Following months of harassment and retaliation by that agency, Manning, with ...
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