CCA Pays $70,000 in Damages, Attorney Fees to Settle PLN Censorship Suit

Loaded on July 15, 2010 by Alex Friedmann published in Verdict1 July, 2010, page 31

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Civil Procedure, Settlements, Publications/Books, Mail Regulations, PLN Litigation, Censorship. Location: Arizona.

On June 7, 2010, Prison Legal News announced that it had settled a federal censorship suit against Corrections Corp. of America (CCA), the nation’s largest private prison company.
PLN filed the lawsuit in September 2009, claiming that CCA’s Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, Arizona only allowed prisoners to order books ...

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