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· 10/20/1958

Thompson v. Bannan

Citations

  • 358 U.S. 868

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that the provision of only two, as opposed to three, nutritionally adequate meals daily does not violate the Eighth Amendment
  • finding that a permanent policy of providing the prisoner only two meals a day did not violate the Eighth Amendment so long as no health issues resulted
  • no constitutional violation where inmates could wash their clothes in sinks and average jail stay was ten days

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