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Double Celling: Witness Protection

     241:3 Trial court certifies findings that two correctional officials knew that placing prisoners in random cell assignments without utilizing available classification information exposed prisoners to a "substantial risk of serious harm." Tabech v. Gunter, 922 F.Supp. 244 (D. Neb. 1996).
     Inmates in federal witness protection program could not challenge double celling on basis of hypothetical future events. 18 Unnamed "John Smith" Prisoners v. Meese, 851 F.2d (9th Cir. 1988).

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