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Prisoner Litigants May Be Shackled in Court
Loaded on July 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1992, page 7
Winston Holloway is an Arkansas prisoner who filed suit under § 1983 claiming that living conditions in the state prison's segregation unit violated the eighth amendment. At trial the jury ruled in favor of prison officials on all claims.
Filed under:
Restraints,
Court Access,
Court Appearances,
Jury Instructions,
Juries,
Witnesses.
Location:
Arkansas.
On appeal Holloway claimed that he had been denied a fair …
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