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$1,500 Settlement for Wisconsin Prisoner’s Cold Cell Conditions Claim
Loaded on June 15, 2010
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2010, page 25
The Wisconsin Department of Corrections paid $1,500 to settle a prisoner’s lawsuit alleging violations of his Eighth Amendment rights by being subjected to cold cell temperatures.
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Exposure to Cold,
Sanitation,
Strip Cells,
Bedding.
Location:
Wisconsin.
Waupan Correctional Institution prisoner Jevon D. Jackson filed a civil rights action for being subjected to un-constitutional conditions of confinement. His ordeal began on ...
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