Legal Opinion
Gourdet v. Holder
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 4, 2009No. 08-2422PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Mackendy Gourdet, a native and citizen of Haiti, seeks review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) denying his application for relief from removal under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). In addressing claims for CAT relief based on substandard prison conditions, we have distinguished between generally substandard prison conditions, such as deprivation of adequate space, food, water, sanitation or exercise, and acts of mistreatment of individual prisoners by prison officials, such as “burning with cigarettes and use of electric shock.” See Settenda…
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