U.S. District Court: SAFETY CONDITIONS SANITATION.

• Position: Prisoners and prisons - Brief Article

Oladipupo v. Austin, 104 F.Supp.2d 643 (W.D.La. 2000). A detainee of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) who was awaiting removal from the United States brought a [sections] 1983 action against parish jail officials challenging the constitutionality of his conditions of confinement. The district court found that the fact that INS detainees held at the parish jail had fewer privileges than INS detainees held at a federal detention center did not violate the Equal Protection...