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Correct Jury Instructions Needed for Beating Trial
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1994, page 8
Keith Howard is a Missouri state prisoner. Upon returning to the prison after an outside medical visit, Howard was ordered to strip for a search. He refused and was thrown to the floor by several guards, hand-cuffed, forcibly stripped and taken to his cell. In this process Howard's head collided …
Filed under:
Strip Searches,
Conditions of Confinement,
Strip Cells,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Restraints,
Damages,
Jury Instructions.
Location:
Missouri.
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