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Exposed Toilet in Maine Jail Upheld

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Toilets, PLRA, Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA). Location: Maine.

The plaintiff alleged that he was placed in a cell where he was in the
direct view of female prisoners in another cell when he performed his
bodily functions. There is no evidence that any jail staff member knew
that this was the case until they received his complaint, and …

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