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Confinement in Strip Cells as Disciplinary Tool Unconstitutional

New York prisoners Mosher and Wright brought separate § 1983 actions, later
consolidated, against a prison warden for Eighth Amendment violations
stemming from their confinement in a strip cell." Strip cells are used for
psychiatric observation; they are bare and have no toilet or sink.
Prisoners are often placed in ...

 

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