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Summary Judgment for CCA Reversed in Filthy Jail Conditions Case
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2011
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2011, page 18
On April 15, 2011, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s grant of summary judgment to Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) in a civil rights action alleging Eighth Amendment violations after CCA staff left a mentally ill prisoner in his squalid segregation cell for nine months.
Filed under:
Retaliation against Staff,
Whistleblowing,
Showers,
Sanitation,
PLRA,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
Tennessee.
The ...
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