Davis v. Milwaukee County.

• Position: Prison discipline - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

PRETRIAL DETAINEE

PUNISHMENT

RESTRAINTS

Davis v. Milwaukee County, 225 F.Supp.2d 967 (E.D.Wis. 2002). A state prisoner filed a pro se [section] 1983 action claiming that his constitutional right of access to the courts was violated when he was a pretrial detainee at a county jail. The defendants moved for summary judgment and the district court granted the motion in part, and denied it in part. The court found that the detainee's allegations that pretrial detainees such as himself...