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Cane Seizure Can Violate Eighth Amendment

Afederal district court in New York held that the seizure of a prisoner's medically prescribed cane by a guard can give rise to an Eighth Amendment violation. Because the guard's subjective intentions for seizing the cane were at issue, the court denied summary judgment on this point.

In 1994, a ...

 

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