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Conditions of Confinement: Washington State Prisoner Sues Over Twelve Harsh Days in Strip Cell
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2002
by Silja JA Talvi
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2002, page 14
In the early morning hours of February 2, 1998, at Clallam Bay Correctional Center (CBCC), Washington State prisoner Sylvester Mahone felt like he had had enough. Locked up in isolation in one of Washington State's six Intensive Management Units (IMUs)the kind of bare-bones, supermax concrete isolation cells increasingly common in ...
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Food,
Exposure to Cold,
Clothing,
Water,
Strip Cells,
Bedding,
Restraints,
Administrative Exhaustion,
Ad-Seg Hearings.
Location:
Washington.
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