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Unhygienic prison surveillance

NEW ORLEANS — A federal court in Louisiana found that four prison officers did not enjoy total immunity on negligence and constitutional claims brought by an inmate who alleges that, for four days, he was denied basic hygiene, forced to use the bathroom in restraints, ordered to ingest laxatives and undergone X-rays in failed attempts to catch him with contraband. Prison officials may not deprive prisoners of the “minimal civilized measure of life’s necessities.”

Read the ruling here.

Categories / Briefs, Civil Rights, Government, Personal Injury

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