Russell v. Richards.U.S. Appeals Court RIGHT TO REFUSE Russell v. Richards, 384 F.3d 444 (7th Cir. 2004). Two inmates brought an action against a sheriff, challenging a jail's policy of instructing new inmates to use delousing shampoo. The district court entered summary judgment for the sheriff and the inmates appealed. The appeals court affirmed, finding that the jail's policy did not violate the inmates' due process right to be free from unwanted medical treatment. The court noted that the jail's policy had a legitimate penological pe·nol·o·gy also poe·nol·o·gy n. The study, theory, and practice of prison management and criminal rehabilitation. [Latin poena, penalty (from Greek interest in preventing inmates and staff from being exposed to lice, and avoiding the costs associated with eradicating a lice infestation Lice Infestation Definition Lice infestations (pediculoses) are infections of the skin, hair, or genital region caused by lice living directly on the body or in hats or other garments. . According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the court, allowing individual inmates to reject delousing shampoo would have placed the sanitation of other prisoners at risk and exposed the jail to potential lawsuits. (Johnson County Johnson County is the name of several counties in the United States:
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