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Protecting Your Health &Safety: A Litigation Guide for Inmates

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Toone, Robert E.

Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL)

Published 2002. 360 pages.

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. Accession Number: 017821

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