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CORTES-QUINONES v. JIMENEZ-NETTLESHIP

Nos. 86-2027, 86-2106.

842 F.2d 556 (1988)

Guillermina CORTES-QUINONES, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Charles JIMENEZ-NETTLESHIP, etc., et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 28, 1988.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied April 22, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vannessa Ramirez, Asst. Sol. Gen., Dept. of Justice, with whom Rafael Ortiz Carrion, Sol. Gen., and Norma Cotti Cruz, Deputy Sol. Gen., were on brief for defendants, appellants.

Jose E. Fernandez-Sein with whom Law Offices of Nachman & Fernandez-Sein, was on brief for plaintiff, appellee.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, BOWNES and BREYER, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied April 22, 1988.

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...

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