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Jail Inmates Entitled to Safe Cells

Jail Inmates Entitled To Safe Cells

Two prisoners at the Birmingham, Alabama, jail committed suicide and their estates filed suit claiming violations of the detainees' eighth and fourteenth amendment rights. Both men hanged themselves with bed sheets hung from an iron bar across their cell window. In a two year ...

 

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