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Sixth Circuit Revives Challenge by Kentucky Prisoner Left Three Weeks in “Rancid” Paper Undershorts
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2025
by Douglas Ankney
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2025, page 28
Filed under:
Informants,
Clothing,
Sanitation,
Summary Judgment,
Deliberate Indifference.
Location:
Kentucky.
by Douglas Ankney
On June 17, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment to Defendant Kentucky Department of Corrections (DOC) officials who forced a prisoner to wear paper undershorts and then shrugged when the prison supply that was his size ...
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