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Sandin Applied to Wisconsin Sexual Offender Civil Commitment

Loaded on March 15, 2003 published in Prison Legal News March, 2003, page 27
Filed under: Liberty Interests, Conditions of Confinement, Transportation, Restraints, Civil Commitment. Location: Wisconsin.
In analyzing a district court's order finding Richard Thielman, a sexual offender civil committee, did not have a liberty interest from being restrained by waistchains, blackbox, and leg irons when being transported outside the Wisconsin Resource Center for medical treatment, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that the standard …

 

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