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Mississippi Death Row Conditions Unconstitutional; Sweeping Reforms Ordered
Loaded on April 15, 2004
by Bob Williams
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2004, page 26
Mississippi Death Row Conditions Unconstitutional;
Filed under:
Victims,
Ventilation,
Exercise,
Exposure to Cold,
Plumbing,
Sewage,
Sanitation,
Lighting,
Laundry,
Vermin,
Exposure to Heat,
Death Row,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Guards/Staff,
American Correctional Association.
Location:
Mississippi.
Sweeping Reforms Ordered
by Bob Williams
Hailed as the broadest ruling ever is-sued by a federal judge in a death row conditions of confinement case, and a precedent setting breakthrough in prisoners' rights, conditions at Mississippi State Penitentiary Unit 32-C, Parchman Death Row, were found ...
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