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Prisoner Has Right to Hunger Strike

Loaded on Sept. 15, 1996 by James Quigley published in Prison Legal News September, 1996, page 20
Filed under: Hunger Strikes, Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's, Mental Health, Involuntary Treatment/Drugging. Location: Florida.
A Florida appellate court has ruled that a prisoner has a right to refuse forced feeding or medical treatment based on an interpretation of the privacy clause of the Florida State constitution.

In late 1994 Michael V. Costello, a Florida state prisoner who was the nominal plaintiff in the state's ...

 

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