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Illinois Jail Conditions Suit States Claim
Loaded on June 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1997, page 18
The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held a district court erred in dismissing a pretrial detainee's conditions of confinement suit for failure to state a claim under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). The court also held it was error to dismiss defendants not properly served by the marshalls service. Michael Antonelli …
Filed under:
Racial Discrimination,
Conditions of Confinement,
Totality of Conditions,
Food,
Exercise,
Exposure to Cold,
Jail Specific,
Reading Materials,
Lighting,
Noise,
Vermin,
Service,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
Illinois.
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