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Tenth Circuit: No Qualified Immunity for Juvenile Restraint Chair Punishment
Loaded on Jan. 10, 2015
by Mark Wilson
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2015, page 36
Filed under:
Restraints,
Qualified Immunity,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Juvenile Prisons.
Location:
Kansas.
Tenth Circuit: No Qualified Immunity for Juvenile Restraint Chair Punishment
by Mark Wilson
On November 8, 2013, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the denial of qualified immunity in a case that involved the shackling of a juvenile detainee in a restraint chair as punishment and denial of mental ...
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