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Damages in Denial of Exercise Suit Reversed
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2001, page 18
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a harshly worded opinion, reversed an Illinois federal district court judgment that a one-year loss of yard privileges suffered by a prisoner in disciplinary segregation was cruel and unusual punishment.
Filed under:
Sanctions (Disciplinary Hearings),
Exercise,
Damages,
Qualified Immunity,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
Illinois.
Alex Pearson is a prisoner at the Stateville Correctional Center (SCC) in Illinois. ...
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