Bettye Delores Pitts, Gwendolyn A. Samuels v. Richard Thornburgh

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• suggesting that because general budget and policy choices do not involve the prison’s daily operation, security, or inmate behavior, Turner should not apply
• opining that the challenged policy did not “directly implicate either prison security or control of inmate behavior, nor does it go to the prison environment or prison regime.”
• finding District's attempts to ameliorate burden differentially imposed on women probative of lack of invidious discriminatory intent, even though attempts had been frustrated by budgetary constraints
• finding District's attempts to ameliorate burden differentially imposed on women probative of lack of invidious discriminatory intent, even though attempts had been frustrated by budgetary constraints
• \[S]eeking to reduce prison overcrowding is surely an important government interest.\
• prisoner claims that implicate “general budgetary and policy choices” rather than security concerns do not require same level of administrative deference

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