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Iowa Segregation Suit Settled
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2001
by James Quigley
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2001, page 11
A federal district court in Iowa
Filed under:
Hearing Officers,
Sanctions (Disciplinary Hearings),
Overcrowding,
Eighth Amendment,
Exercise,
Injunctions (PLRA),
Ad-Seg Hearings,
Mental Health,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
Iowa.
held that after nearly a decade of unconstitutional conditions, state prison officials have finally submitted an acceptable plan to remedy substantive due process violations relating to extraordinarily longterm lockup, and various Eighth Amendment violations in a segregation unit. In lieu of injunctive relief, the ...
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