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Washington Feces Watch and Visiting Policy Create Liberty Interest
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1992, page 7
Rogaciano Mendoza was a prisoner at the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) at Walla Walla in 1989 when prison officials discovered a broken balloon containing a white substance in the visiting room bathroom being used by Mendozas 6 children. Mendoza was placed in a dry cell under a "feces watch." He …
Filed under:
Liberty Interests,
Body Cavity Searches,
Conditions of Confinement,
Strip Cells,
Standing,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Washington.
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