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Seventh Circuit Vacates Summary Judgment for Nutriloaf Diet
Loaded on May 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2013, page 28
Recognizing that “anal fissures” are “no fun at all,” the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held on March 27, 2012 that Wisconsin jail officials were not entitled to summary judgment for imposing an exclusive diet of Nutriloaf on a prisoner.Milwaukee County Jail (MCJ) policy mandates an exclusive diet of ...
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