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  • 017821

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  • Published 2002.
  • 360 pages.

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Protecting Your Health & Safety: A Litigation Guide for Inmates

Publication year: 2002 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Legal information critical for pro se (propria persona) litigants is presented. The following topics are addressed: overview of inmates' rights; excessive force and other abuse by jail and prison officials; deliberate indifference; protection from assault by other inmates; medical care; conditions of confinement; overview of the legal system; exhaustion of administrative remedies; basics of a federal lawsuit; filing a complaint; initial responses to ones complaint; discovery; summary judgment; and settlements and trials.
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