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No Qualified Immunity for Michigan Prisoner’s Heat-Dehydration Death
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2007, page 44
No Qualified Immunity for Michigan Prisoner's Heat-Dehydration Death
Filed under:
Water,
Exposure to Heat,
Qualified Immunity,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Mental Health.
Location:
Michigan.
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of qualified immunity to eleven prison officials in the isolation, dehydration and death of a Michigan prisoner.
A "heat alert" was issued for Ionia Michigan from June 29, 2002 to July 5, 2002 ...
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