Complaint Filed Against Baltimore City Jail Charges Cruel and Unusual Punishment
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May 14, 1971
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Press Releases, Volume 6. Complaint Filed Against Baltimore City Jail Charges Cruel and Unusual Punishment, 1971. 15c39c7c-ba92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/d0b3809a-e4f9-4d2c-a71d-d142f87a461f/complaint-filed-against-baltimore-city-jail-charges-cruel-and-unusual-punishment. Accessed December 04, 2025.
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released to eat, exercise, enjoy recreatio
school or involve
are allowed to leave
(on an average of not more than one rE
privileges are denied ent
The complaint also descr
id to be confined virtually
review and re-evaluati
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degrading conditions.
nor the hygienic m
their cells in a healthy or clean state ...
deprived, for
shaving equipment,
mops, and other n
sical
igni
fur
punishme
assault and beatings,
in rehabili
irely.
in maximum security
inement rang
no regular method of
shment.
“inmates e subjected to filt
They do not recei
ials necessary to maintain themselve
toothbrushes,
hot water, bro
ther claims
o
and the unnecess
confined in nr
(now afforded only to Catholics and Prote
medical attention; the provision to indig
nication with their
and
ture and magz books, lite
ional, reh
oublic agenc
imum securit
including more and bette:
pilita
atto 1eir tri
stants) more adequate
of the rule
itions within
r (now almost nonexi
nd recreation
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