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Guards' Smoke Violates Eighth Amendment
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1996, page 19
A federal district court in Illinois held that a guard deliberately blowing smoke into the face of a prisoner with respiratory ailments violates the eighth amendment. Clarence Walker is a 65 year old Illinois state prisoner who has emphysema, asthma and diabetes, among other medical problems. Walker went to the ...
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Medical,
Respiratory,
Diabetes,
Smoking,
Eighth Amendment,
Summary Judgment,
Supervisory Liability.
Location:
Illinois.
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