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Shackling of Con Litigants Discussed
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1994, page 4
Joe Woods is an Illinois state prisoner. He sued prison officials claiming his eighth amendment rights were violated when they did not feed him for two days during a lockdown. A jury ruled in favor of the prison official defendants. Woods appealed claiming that the appearance of his prisoner witnesses …
Filed under:
Food,
Clothing,
Lockdowns,
Restraints,
Court Access,
Court Appearances,
Juries,
Witnesses.
Location:
Illinois.
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