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Exposure to Cold Weather States Claim
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1994, page 6
Ronald Chandler is a Missouri state prisoner. He filed suit claiming that prison officials violated his constitutional rights by providing a dining room too small to accommodate all the prisoners in his housing unit at once; poorly supervising the noisy and chaotic dining room; not providing enough salt and pepper ...
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