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Gay Prisoners Not Entitled to Double-Occupancy Cell
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2003, page 25
Gay Prisoners Not Entitled To Double-Occupancy Cell
Filed under:
Gay/Lesbian,
STDs,
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General).
Location:
Virginia.
The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that legitimate penological interests supported a prison policy to restrict homosexual male prisoners to single celled housing while at the same facility yet permitting homosexual female prisoners to live together, as well as heterosexual males. …
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