Eighth Circuit· 9/16/1981

Villanueva v. George

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659 F.2d 851

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holding that pretrial detainee’s Fourteenth Amendment rights were vio- lated because he was kept in a cell measuring six feet by six feet that was infested with insects and rodents without regular opportunity for exercise or showers
concluding that jury could have reasonably concluded that plaintiff’s conditions of confinement were punitive where plaintiff was kept in his small cell for seventy-two hours without opportunity for exercise or shower and cell was infested with insects and housed rodents
“The legitimate governmental objectives of pretrial detention are to insure a detainee’s presence at trial and to maintain security and order in its detention facilities.”
“The legitimate governmental objectives of pretrial detention are to insure a detainee’s presence at trial and to maintain security and order in its detention facilities.”

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Judges: Arnold, Bright, Heaney, Henley, Lay, McMillian, Ross, Stephenson

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