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Smoking Ban Upheld

Loaded on March 15, 1994 published in Prison Legal News March, 1994, page 5
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Smoking. Location: Pennsylvania.
In May of 1993 officials at the Berks County Prison in Pennsylvania initiated a policy which prohibited smoking by prisoners at the facility. Four prisoners filed suit claiming that the ban on smoking constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of their eighth amendment rights. They also claimed that a ...

 

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