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Suit results in Va. prisons allowing Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook from CCR and the NLG

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Suit results in Va. prisons allowing legal handbook By Tasha Kates February 28, 2011 Charlottesville Daily Progress An inmate legal guide to challenging prison mistreatment will be made available in Virginia?s prison libraries as part of a lawsuit settlement. According to a settlement agreement between the civil rights organizations behind the ?Jailhouse Lawyer?s Handbook? that was signed Friday, the Virginia Department of Corrections will place five copies of the previously banned handbook in each prison?s library. Inmates also will be able to buy subscriptions or receive gift subscriptions for publications from the handbook publishers ? the National Lawyers Guild and Center for Constitutional Rights. Under the settlement, the DOC will pay $2,500 ?representing a compromise of the claims made by [the publishers] for damages? and $10,230 in attorneys? fees...continue to full post

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