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Pretrial Cold Cell Violates Fourteenth Amendment
Loaded on April 15, 2000
by Ronald Young
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2000, page 23
A federal district court in Illinois held that a pretrial detainee's alleged exposure to low temperature in a detention cell, while naked and with no alternative means of protecting himself from the cold, supported a claim of inadequate shelter against county jail deputies and thus stated a claim of deliberate …
Filed under:
Exposure to Cold,
Clothing,
Strip Cells,
Bedding,
Jail Specific,
Civil Procedure,
Conspiracy (Civil Procedure).
Location:
Illinois.
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