Complaint Filed Against Baltimore City Jail Charges Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Press Release
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 October 10, 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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For Further Information Contact: Sandra O'Gorman 

2) 586-8397

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