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Lawsuit alleges abuse
By The Michigan Citizen
Published: 10/23/2008

MICHIGAN - The National Lawyer’s Guild, the nation’s foremost progressive legal organization, held their annual convention at the Detroit Renaissance Center Marriott Hotel this past weekend. Honorees included Richard Soble, one of ten Michigan attorneys who, in 1996, helped initiate a class action lawsuit by female prisoners incarcerated at three Michigan women’s prisons.

The plaintiffs numbered almost 500 and the charges included a wide range of systematic sexual assault and abuse over a period of five years. Neal vs. the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) was directed against the MDOC, its director McGinnis and the wardens of Scott, Western Wayne and Florence Crane Correctional Facilities. Read more.

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