Cruel to prisoner
BOSTON — The First Circuit held that prison officials who subjected an inmate, who had overdosed on a fentanyl-laced pill he acquired in a Rhode Island prison, to 450 days of solitary confinement — exacerbated by sensory and sleep deprivation — do not have qualified immunity from his Eighth Amendment lawsuit.
Read the ruling here.
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