Life sentences for juveniles, a union’s “neat trick,” opening prisoners’ legal mail, and undergarments & prison tattoos.
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Life sentence: http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2017/D03-16/C:17-1244:J:Manion:aut:T:fnOp:N:1930438:S:0&mc_cid=fe91fc0e02&mc_eid=6e8e76319f
Union’s neat trick: https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/E011044428F84FB7852580DC0053A523/$file/15-1412-1664674.pdf
Legal mail: http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2017/03/03/14-35078.pdf?mc_cid=79b78eccb3&mc_eid=6e8e76319f and http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2017/03/03/14-15271.pdf?mc_cid=79b78eccb3&mc_eid=6e8e76319f
Underwear and prison tattoos: http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2017/D03-09/C:16-1711:J:Hamilton:aut:T:fnOp:N:1926216:S:0&mc_cid=79b78eccb3&mc_eid=6e8e76319f
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