A sex offender who was kept in solitary confinement for more than four months to protect him from other inmates can proceed with his suit against an upstate county jail, a federal judge has ruled.
Northern District Judge Thomas McAvoy (See Profile) decided in Tavares v. Amato, 12-cv-563, that Peter Tavares has raised unaddressed questions about possible violations of his constitutional rights while incarcerated at the Montgomery County Jail to merit denial of the county's motion to dismiss.
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