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Inmate seeks damages for smoking cellmate 

Jump to full article: Shawano (WI) Leader, 2004-12-05
Author: Tom Sheehan, Leader Madison bureau

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William Faulkner is suing George Jones in U.S. District Court in Madison after Jones allegedly exposed Faulkner to cruel and unusual punishment. . . .

Fate brought the two together when Faulkner was transferred from Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage to Whiteville because Wisconsin's prisons were too crowded. Faulkner has since been returned to Stanley prison in Wisconsin, but a legal relationship lingers in a dispute over second-hand smoke.

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