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Guard's Interference With Arizona Prisoner's Receipt of Prescribed Special Diet May Violate 8th Amendment

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Conditions of Confinement, Food. Location: Arizona.

Guard's Interference With Arizona Prisoner's Receipt of Prescribed Special
Diet May Violate 8th Amendment

Lewis Harry, an Arizona state prisoner, sued the state Department of
Corrections (DOC) after DOC guards refused to let him have the special diet
prescribed for him by a physician, for a 6-month period. He sued ...

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