U.S. SUPREME COURT TURNS AWAY LAWSUIT BY INMATE HELD IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT FOR 27 YEARS

WASHINGTON, April 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a Texas inmate convicted of robbery who argues that the 27 years he was forced by prison officials to spend in solitary confinement violated the constitutional bar against "cruel and unusual" punishment.

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