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Eighth Circuit Applies Turner Test to Control Unit Conditions Case
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2002, page 28
In the first case to apply the "Reasonable Relationship" Test of Turner v. Safley , 482 U.S. 78, 107 S.Ct. 2254 (1987), to a conditions of confinement case, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals remanded a district court's decision finding constitutional violations in relation to longterm segregation, for reconsideration under ...
Filed under:
Sanctions (Disciplinary Hearings),
Exercise,
Injunctions,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement,
Ad-Seg Hearings,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
Iowa.
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