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March 14, 2006

Cruel and Unusual?

Posted by Eric at 3:23 pm. Filed under: Courts / Legal

Wow. Apparently sleeping on a mattress on the floor is cruel and unusual punishment.

Los Angeles County faces tens of millions of dollars in damages for bedding thousands of prisoners on mattresses on concrete floors.

The practice violates the Constitution and is symptomatic of serious problems in the crowded, riot-torn jail system, a federal judge tentatively ruled Monday.


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