The Restraint Chair as Punishment for SMI Prisoners
Author: Fred Cohen.
Source: Volume 17, Number 04, November/December 2015 , pp.53-54(2)
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Abstract:
Pennsylvania inmate Leonard G. Young’s Eighth Amendment based claim focuses on his time in four point restraint, naked, and for fourteen hours although he did not appear to pose a threat to himself or others. These types of cases are importantly fact driven, but his case also poses an interesting, and recurring, legal question: is the prolonged placement of an inmate in a restraint chair to be analyzed as excessive force or, as Defendants argue, is this a conditions of confinement case?Keywords: Young v. Martin (3d Cir. 2015); Hope v. Pelzer , 536 US 730; excessive force
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