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Making Con Drink from Toilet States Claim
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1994, page 9
Making Con Drink From Toilet States Claim Apro se prisoner at the Indiana State Prison, Craig Thomas, filed a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The complaint raised a number of issues, only one of which survived the state's motion for summary judgement. The surviving claim was an ...
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