CA8: Extraditee stated Bell v. Wolfish due process claim from injury and degradation from 8 day transportation that should have taken about 17 hours

Plaintiff was an extraditee transported from Colorado to Mississippi, a 17 hour trip, that took eight days and resulted in real injury and degradation from lack of stops and rest. Plaintiff sued in the Eastern District of California, but it was transferred to the Eastern District of Arkansas because that’s where the defendant corporation was domiciled. Plaintiff stated a claim under Bell v. Wolfish and due process of law. Stearns v. Inmate Servs. Corp., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 13724 (8th Cir. Apr. 29, 2020).

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