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Civil Litigation

May 19, 2020

2 state prisons failed to protect inmates, lawsuit says

The Bureau of Prisons’ website says 1,780 inmates and staff at the two prisons have tested positive for the virus and 10 have died, accounting for almost all of the total 1,840 cases for all federal prisons in the state.

Two federal prisons in California are being sued by the ACLU and two law firms for allegedly failing to protect inmates and staff from the coronavirus.

The proposed class actions come a week after the California Supreme Court denied a writ petition from the ACLU that sought state intervention in reducing jail populations.

Filed Saturday in the Central District of California, the lawsuits name the...

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