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Eleventh Circuit Affirms Injunction in Florida DOC Mental Health Conditions Pepper Spray Case
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2011
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2011, page 28
by David M. Reutter
Filed under:
Eighth Amendment,
Pepper Spray/Tear Gas,
Mootness,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
Florida.
On August 20, 2010, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court’s order that found a warden and the secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) had “turned a blind eye” to a prisoner’s “mental health needs and the obvious danger that the ...
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