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$60,411 Attorney Fee Award in Maryland Prisoner’s Public Information Act Suit

Loaded on Nov. 15, 2012 published in Prison Legal News November, 2012, page 30

Filed under: Private Prisons, Prison Health Services, Hepatitis, Disclosure of Records, State Legislation. Location: Maryland.

The State of Maryland has agreed to pay more than $60,000 in attorney fees to settle a longstanding lawsuit brought by a prisoner who had requested public records pursuant to the state’s Public Information Act.

While incarcerated at the Western Correctional Institution (WCI) in May 2002, Richard L. Massey, Jr. ...

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