Junior Ray Duckworth, Cross-Appellants v. Gayle Franzen, Cross-Appellees

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1986-02-05

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POSNER, Circuit Judge. In November 1979 a bus used to transport prisoners between Illinois prisons caught fire from unknown causes. When the fire broke out, the 35 prisoners in the bus were in handcuffs, with all the prisoners on each side of the aisle being joined together by a chain running through the handcuffs. For reasons of se…

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