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Chained Detainee Wins Restraint Case
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1993, page 12
At the Madison County Jail in Indiana a pre-trial detainee named Jones became despondent and tried to hang himself, after learning that his four months pregnant girlfriend had taken a job as an exotic "topless" dancer. Jail officials busted Jones and moved him to a barren detox cell, where he ...
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Clothing,
Showers,
Toilets,
Plumbing,
Hygiene Supplies,
Restraints,
Municipal Liability,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Suicides.
Location:
Indiana.
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