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New York Jail Overcrowding Unconstitutional
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1997, page 14
A federal district court in New York held that overcrowding in the Erie County jail violated the eighth amendment rights of convicted prisoners and the fourteenth amendment rights of pretrial detainees housed in the jail. Bernard Zolnowski, a pretrial detainee, filed suit challenging jail conditions. The suit was then converted ...
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Totality of Conditions,
Overcrowding,
Ventilation,
Toilets,
Sanitation,
Jail Specific,
Laundry,
Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's.
Location:
New York.
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