· 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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