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Ninth Circuit Upholds Six-Day Contraband Watch Conditions
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2014, page 43
A divided panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that California prison officials are entitled to qualified immunity on a prisoner’s claim that the conditions of a six-day contraband watch – which included 24-hour lighting, the absence of a mattress and extensive bodily restraints – violated the ...
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