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AL Jail Enjoined From Holding Prisoners Overnight

Loaded on Jan. 15, 1998 published in Prison Legal News January, 1998, page 9
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Totality of Conditions, Failure to Protect (General), Food, Overcrowding, Staffing, Ventilation, Exposure to Cold, Clothing, Toilets, Plumbing, Sewage, Sanitation, Bedding, Jail Specific, Lighting, Vermin, Injunctions, Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's. Location: Michigan.
Afederal district court in Alabama held that conditions in the Pickens county jail in Carrolton, Alabama, were so abysmal it was not fit for human or animal habitation. Prisoners in the jail filed a class action suit challenging the conditions of their confinement. The jail was designed to hold 54 ...

 

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