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Threat States 8th Amendment Claim
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1993, page 14
Lloyd Smith is a Texas state prisoner. While working in the prison kitchen Smith witnessed a prison guard, Raymond Aldingers, order another prisoner to hold out his hand, which Aldingers then proceeded to cut open with a kitchen knife. Aldingers then turned to Smith and asked "You want some of ...
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