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Beating and Strip Cell Require Trial
Loaded on April 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1997, page 15
The court of appeals for the tenth circuit held that beating a naked, handcuffed, non-resisting prisoner violates the eighth amendment; that placing a prisoner in a strip cell without blankets or heating violates the eighth amendment as well. The court also discussed when a district judge should be recused from ...
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