Legal Opinion
Guillermina Cortes-Quinones v. Charles Jimenez-Nettleship, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 22, 1988No. 19-1884PublishedCited by 252 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Circuit Judge.
On September 30,1981, Puerto Rico prison officials transferred William Arenas Cortes, a psychiatrically disturbed prisoner, and thirty-nine other prisoners, from the State Penitentiary to the Arecibo District Jail, a jail so overcrowded that space per prisoner amounted to 15.5 square feet (e.g., 30 by 74 inches). Within a matter of a few months, Arenas was found dead, his body dismembered. His mother brought this civil rights action, 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982), against three prison officials, claiming that their actions amounted to “cruel and unusual” punishment of her son…
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