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Settlement Agreement Reached in Wisconsin Supermax Suit
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2002
by John E Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2002, page 19
by John E. Dannenberg
Filed under:
Food,
Exercise,
Exposure to Cold,
Reading Materials,
Lighting,
Exposure to Heat,
Restraints,
Education,
Telephone Access,
Ad-Seg Hearings,
Mental Health.
Location:
Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) officials settled the 42 USC § 1983 class action civil rights suit brought by seriously mentally ill prisoners housed in the Boscobel, WI Supermax state prison by agreeing not to house the mentally ill there, by substantially reducing "barbaric" conditions and …
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