... Appeals is underway in a suit seeking to improve deplorable health care conditions at the Washington Corrections Center for Women at Purdy. In the spring of 1999, the ACLU, Columbia Legal Services, and the Northwest Women's Law Center went to court, alleging the state has not lived up to the terms of a 1995 stipulated judgment in a lawsuit (Hallett v. Payne) filed ... women incarcerated at the prison. Under the judgment, prison administrators agreed to develop a comprehensive plan to significantly upgrade delivery of medical, dental, and mental health care services to meet minimal cons...

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... by the state. The major section of Title II the Heart of Atlanta Motel violated was: "All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin ... amendment or the 13th amendment as being "involuntary servitude". The vote on the decision of the court was nine to zero favoring the United States. The decision was read on December 14, 1964 merely ...

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