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Philadelphia Fined for Degrading City Prisons
Loaded on April 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1997, page 10
A Philadelphia common pleas court panel fined the city $2.2 million for "degrading" conditions in the city's prisons.
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Totality of Conditions,
Staffing,
Sanitation,
Jail Specific,
Laundry,
Vermin,
Contempt (Civil Procedure).
Location:
Pennsylvania.
The judgment, passed down by a three judge panel in early October, 1996, was accompanied by a contempt of court citation for the city. The fine and citation stem from an ongoing ...
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