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Overcrowding Must Cause Harm to Be Actionable

The court of appeals for the Sixth circuit largely reversed a district court's injunction over conditions at the Knox county jail in Knoxville, Tennessee, holding there must be a causal connection between overcrowding and bad conditions. The district court issued an injunction enjoining crowding in the jail, finding that the …

 

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