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PI Granted on Winter Clothing Claim
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1996, page 21
Afederal district court in New York granted a preliminary injunction ordering prison officials to provide segregation unit prisoners with winter clothes in order for them to have access to outdoor exercise. Ronald Davidson, a New York state prisoner, filed suit challenging the inadequacy of medial care he had received and …
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Exercise,
Exposure to Cold,
Clothing,
Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's.
Location:
New York.
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