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Cold Cell Violates 8th Amendment

The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held that extremely cold prison cells violate the eighth amendment but poor cell ventilation in summer does not. Anthony Dixon is an Illinois state prisoner in protective custody at Stateville. He filed suit claiming that in winter his cell was so cold ...

 

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