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No Immunity for Denial of Exercise
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1997, page 18
The court of appeals for the second circuit held that prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity from money damages for denying a prisoner in medical segregation all opportunity for exercise. Bobby Williams is a New York state prisoner who refused to submit to a Tuberculosis test because he …
Filed under:
Tuberculosis,
Exercise,
Qualified Immunity,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
New York.
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