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State Liable for County Jail Overcrowding

Loaded on April 15, 1993 published in Prison Legal News April, 1993, page 6
Filed under: Overcrowding, Injunctions, Immunity/Liability, Qualified Immunity, Municipal Liability. Location: Texas.
Jail prisoners in the Harris County Jail, Texas, filed suit against county and state officials claiming that overcrowding at the jail violated the eighth amendment. The district court found that it did and that both state and county officials had acted with deliberate indifference towards jail prisoners.

The defendants appealed ...

 

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