Burks v. Walsh

How courts have described this case

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• double-bunking in cells of 47 square feet is cruel and unusual punishment but double-bunking in 59-square-foot and 65-square-foot cells is not
• double-celling protective custody inmates, who had “substantially less” out-of-cell time than inmates in general population, in cells measuring 47.18 square feet, is “plainly intolerable”
• unconstitutional to hold two inmates in forty-seven-square-foot cells and three inmates in sixty-five-square-foot cells

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).