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Puerto Rico Prison Officials Fined $10 Million

Loaded on March 15, 2002 published in Prison Legal News March, 2002, page 8
Filed under: Systemic Medical Neglect, Conditions of Confinement, Totality of Conditions, Overcrowding, Ventilation, Clothing, Bedding, Hygiene Supplies, Vermin, Exposure to Heat, Injunctions, Contempt (Civil Procedure). Location: Puerto Rico.
A federal court in Puerto Rico held prison officials in contempt for failing to comply with court orders governing prison conditions and imposed a contempt sanction of $10 million.

More than 20 years ago the court first dealt with prison overcrowding in Puerto Rico prisons by issuing a preliminary injunction …

 

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