ICE/DRO Detention Standard: Law Libraries and Legal Material
Publication year:
2008
| Cataloged on:
Dec. 17, 2009
ANNOTATION: “This Detention Standard protects detainees’ rights by ensuring their access to courts, counsel, and comprehensive legal materials” (p.1). Expected practices include: law library; supervision; hours of access; equipment; maintaining up-to-date legal materials; materials from outside persons or organizations; requests for additional legal material; photocopying legal documents; assistance from other detainees; assistance to illiterate, non-English speaking and disabled detainees; personal legal materials; law library access for detainees in special management units; envelopes and stamps for indigent detainees; notaries, certified mail, and miscellaneous needs associated with legal matters; notice to detainees; and retaliation prohibited.
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