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Thirty-Nine Year Stay in Solitary Requires Procedural Safeguards; 5th Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity

On December 17, 2014, the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the ruling of a Louisiana federal district court judge denying qualified immunity to prison officials in a lawsuit filed by a prisoner who had been in solitary confinement for the past 39 years.

Albert Woodfox was first placed ...

 

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