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Prisoners at Indiana Jail Certified as a Class in Conditions of Confinement Suit
Loaded on Dec. 10, 2019
by Kevin Bliss
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2019, page 33
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Class Certification,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
Indiana.
by Kevin Bliss
In June 2019, an Indiana federal district court held that a former jail detainee, Adam Bell, had presented sufficient evidence to fulfill the requirements to certify a class comprised of all current and future prisoners at the Henry County jail in a lawsuit alleging unconstitutional and inhumane ...
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