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Final Settlement Entered in 1976 Class-Action Suit Against Florida Jail

by Scott Grammer

In August 1976, a lawsuit was filed in a Florida federal district court alleging numerous constitutional violations at the Broward County jail, including overcrowding. Two years later the case was certified as a class action. It took until 1994 for a consent decree to be reached, then ...

 

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