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Preventive Detention

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Court allows preventive detention of criminal suspects prior to trial - United States v. Salerno, 481 U.S. 739 (1987)

Court allows preventive detainees to be kept in jail - Bell v. Wolfish, 99 S. Ct. 1861, 441 U.S. 520 (1979)

 

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