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Third Circuit Unbothered by Pennsylvania’s Discrimination Against Sex Offenders in Denying Parole to Halfway Houses
Loaded on April 1, 2023
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2023, page 39
Filed under:
Parole Board Misconduct,
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
halfway houses.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
by David M. Reutter
In a precedential ruling displaying galling cowardice, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ordered summary judgment on November 9, 2022, against a group of sex offenders whose class-action suit claimed their civil rights were violated when the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) denied ...
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