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BOP Liable for Overcrowding and Opening Detainees Mail
Loaded on June 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1993, page 8
Richard Young is a federal pretrial detainee. While awaiting trial he was housed at the US Penitentiary in Lewisburg, PA. He filed suit claiming that the conditions of confinement violated his right to be free from punishment. The conditions included being confined 23 hours a day, with ten other men, …
Filed under:
Overcrowding,
Qualified Immunity,
Mail,
Mail Regulations,
Legal Mail.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
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