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Damages Awarded to HIV+ Jail Prisoner
Loaded on April 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1993, page 6
Louise Nolley is an HIV+ prisoner held in the Erie County Jail in New York. She filed suit under § 1983 contending that various jail practices violated her rights. The objectionable practices included: automatically segregating HIV+ prisoners; denying HIV+ prisoners law library and religious service access; and placing red stickers …
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