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Michigan's In-Cell Restraints Considered Torture; Injunction Issued
Loaded on May 15, 2007
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2007, page 8
by David M. Reutter
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
CMS,
Medication,
Failure to Treat,
Water,
Strip Cells,
Injunctions (PLRA),
Excessive Force,
Restraints,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
Location:
Washington.
A Michigan federal district court has held that the use of in-cell restraints for punitive reasons constitutes torture. In reaching that conclusion, the Court reopened its previous judgment concerning mental health claims and issued a preliminary injunction.
The Court's ruling comes in the Hadix case, a …
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