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Military Prisoners Cannot Sue Over Conditions of Confinement
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2003, page 23
In a landmark decision, the United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the United States District Court of Kansas, has held that a military prisoner cannot sue over conditions of confinement in a military prison, even if the prisoner is fully discharged from military service at the time of ...
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Retaliation,
Retaliation for Litigating,
Federal Tort Claims Act,
Military Prisons.
Location:
Kansas.
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