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| CO Prison Sued By Law Students |
| By duclarion.com |
| Published: 05/18/2010 |
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Two students in the Sturm College of Law’s Civil Rights Clinic (CRC) are suing a Colorado state prison for violating an inmate’s constitutional rights. Ashley Wheeland, a third-year law student, and Patrick Curnalia, a second-year, say that prison officials at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City are depriving an inmate, Troy Anderson, of his due process rights under the 14th Amendment, and are subjecting him to cruel and unusual punishment, violating his Eighth Amendment rights. Wheeland and Curnalia also argue that the prison is discriminating against Anderson, who has a mental illness, violating his rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act. The students filed the claim against the prison in federal district court on May 3. They are working with Brittany Glidden, a clinical fellow in the CRC, and with co-counsel Amy Robertson, a civil rights attorney at the firm Fox and Robertson, on the law suit. Anderson, 40, has been in prison in the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDC) since May 2000. Read More. |
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