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| Prison magazine sues LA County |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/05/2009 |
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The Associated Press Posted: 03/04/2009 LOS ANGELES—A legal magazine dealing with prison issues has sued Los Angeles County seeking records of payouts in litigation involving the county's jails. Prison Legal News, a nonprofit monthly publication that reports on prison issues nationwide and has a wide readership inside prisons, accused the county Sheriff's Department and the Office of County Counsel of violating the Public Records Act by keeping details of payouts secret. PLN publisher Paul Wright of West Brattleboro, Vt., said that until fairly recently the county regularly posted such settlement and verdict information on its Web site, but that is no longer the case. In the wake of jail murders and riots in recent years, Wright said he wants access to the records to find out the cost of such incidents to taxpayers. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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