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Pennsylvania: $99,000 Settlement for 22 Years in Solitary Confinement
Loaded on Feb. 7, 2017
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2017, page 26
Filed under:
Political Prisoners,
Retaliation,
Retaliatory Segregation,
Escapes,
Eighth Amendment,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
A Pennsylvania federal district court held that general issues of material fact required a jury to determine whether a prisoner’s Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when he was held in solitary confinement for over 22 years. Before going to trial, however, the case settled for just under $100,000 ...
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