Bass v. Perrin, No. 96-3428 (11th Cir.) (170 F.3d 1312) (April 1, 1999) (Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat)
Loaded on April 1, 1999
published in Punch and Jurists
April 05, 1999
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
The great Russian novelist Fydor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky once wrote "the degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons." F. Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead 76 (C. Garnett trans., 1957). Apropos that comment, the Eleventh Circuit held in this case that, while unrelieved solitary confinement does ...
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