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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
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 …
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.
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