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Improperly Installed Bunks State 8th Amendment Claim

Loaded on March 15, 2001 published in Prison Legal News March, 2001, page 26
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Bedding, Shelter, Frivolous Litigation, Premises Liability. Location: Tennessee.
The court of appeals for the Sixth circuit held that a prisoner's complaint that bunk beds are improperly installed upside down, and the anchor bolts' protrusion into the sleeping area states an eighth amendment claim. Tennessee prisoner Forrest Zayne Brown filed a 42 U.S.C. §1983 suit claiming the bunks' improper ...

 

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