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Denial of Toilet Unconstitutional
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1995, page 2
A district court in Texas has held that placing a jail detainee in a cell with an inoperable sink and toilet and barely functioning shower and denial of hygiene materials violates the eighth amendment. Isiah Sanford was a detainee in the Ector County Jail in Texas when he was placed …
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Showers,
Toilets,
Plumbing,
Hygiene Supplies.
Location:
Texas.
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