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Report on Indiana Control Unit Issued
Loaded on April 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1994, page 10
The Coalition Against Indiana Control Units (CAICU) has issued it's report Human Rights Violations and Torture on the Rise at the Maximum Control Complex at Westville, IN: Profile of a Supermax . The report details and documents the conditions of confinement suffered by prisoners at the MCC in Westville. This …
Filed under:
Resources,
Eighth Amendment,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
Indiana.
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- Ad Seg as Punishment Unlawful
- Jail Detainees Have Right to Library Access
- 5th Cir. Guts Legal Mail Standard
- Wolff Hearing Required Before Detainees Punished
- 9th Cir. Explains Review of Religious Claims
- AZ Prisoners Have Right to Court Access
- Okay to Disclose Informant's Identity
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- Infestation Violates 8th Amendment
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- BOP Liable for Recalculating Sentence
- IL Prisoners Have No Right to a Valid Classification System
- MO Ad Seg Practices Unlawful
- Double Celling Pre-Trial Detainees Violates Due Process
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- Prisoners Pursue Prison Industries Litigation Despite Continued Retaliation, by Ken Krause
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- Stop the Ohio Super-Max!
- From The Editor, by Paul Wright
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- Mexican Prisoners Speak Out
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