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Stun Gun Use Violates Constitution
Loaded on June 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1994, page 4
J.B. Hickey was an Arkansas state prisoner in the Pulaski County jail awaiting transfer to the penitentiary. Jail officials ordered him to clean his cell and he refused. Jail deputies told Hickey they would shoot him with a stun gun unless he cleaned his cell. Hickey refused and was duly ...
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