Civil Rights
Jul. 19, 2012
County resumes delivery of prison paper
Inmates in the Sacramento County jail system will receive copies of Prison Legal News after a federal judge approved a settlement in a case seeking to end the sheriff's department's ban on the publication.
By Henry Meier
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Inmates in the Sacramento County jail system will receive copies of Prison Legal News after a federal judge approved a settlement in a case seeking to end the sheriff's department's ban on the publication.
Despite initial protests that the staples and shipping labels on the paper posed safety threats, the county agreed Monday to distribute it once again after removing the offending accoutremen...
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