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Drugging of Prisoners Upheld
Loaded on May 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1994, page 2
Albert Sullivan is an Illinois state prisoner forcibly drugged against his will for the past five years. Sullivan filed suit under § 1983 claiming that he has a due process right to stop taking the drugs long enough to prove he does not need them. He also challenged the Illinois ...
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