Legal Opinion
Cooper v. Morin
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 19, 1979PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Meyer, J.
This appeal requires that we pass upon the rights of persons incarcerated pending trial of criminal charges against them; specifically, whether a pretrial detainee has a right to contact visitation with her family; whether, if so, such a visit may be limited to 10 minutes; whether the penalties imposed for infraction of rules for behavior of jail inmates must be related to particular offenses. A subsidiary issue is whether plaintiffs are entitled to attorneys fees. We hold that pretrial detainees are entitled to contact visits of reasonable duration as a matter of…
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