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Infestation Violates 8th Amendment

Loaded on April 15, 1994 published in Prison Legal News April, 1994, page 6
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Eighth Amendment, Vermin. Location: Illinois.
Several pretrial detainees in the Cook County jail in Chicago filed suit over rodent infestation at the jail. Several of the plaintiffs claimed they had been bitten by rats, one was attacked by a swarm of mice. Administrative grievances and complaints to jail officials failed to resolve the problem. The ...

 

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