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Mere "Institutional Security" Claim Not Enough
Loaded on June 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1991, page 5
Mere "Institutional Security" Claim Not Enough
Filed under:
HIV/AIDS,
Medical Experiments/Exploitation,
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings.
Location:
Nevada.
A former prisoner of the Nevada State Prison brought a federal civil rights complaint against guards claiming that his fourth, eighth and fourteenth amendment rights were violated. He contended the violation occurred when guards forced him to submit to a blood test, supposedly in …
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