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Prisoner Entitled to Protection and Toilet Access
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1992, page 13
Kenneth Young is an HIV positive federal prisoner who was transferred to the US Penitentiary at Lewisburg, PA. While in the transfer segregation unit at Lewisburg Young was sexually assaulted by his cellmates several times. He repeatedly requested protective custody from a number of prison officials who repeatedly ignored his …
Filed under:
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
HIV/AIDS,
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General),
Toilets,
Plumbing,
Water,
Strip Cells.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
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