Lantz v. Coleman
''Lantz v. Coleman''''Lantz v. Coleman''
978 A. 2d 164 (Conn. Super. Ct. 2009) is a Connecticut superior court case that addresses the constitutionality of force feeding, forcibly feeding prison inmates on hunger strikes.Spencer, Mark.
Judge Set To Rule On Force-Feeding Of Inmate
''The Hartford Courant'', Nov. 11, 2009 The court ruled in favor of force feeding.

Case

The defendant in the case, William B. Coleman, is a British national who was sentenced to eight years in state prison in 2005 for sexually assaulting his wife.
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Connecticut
Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital is Hartford and its most populous city is Bridgeport. Historically the state is part of New England as well as the tri-state area with New York and New Jersey. The state is named for the Connecticut River which approximately bisects the state. The word "Connecticut" is derived from various anglicized spellings of "Quinnetuket”, a Mohegan-Pequot word for "long tidal river". Connecticut's first European settlers were Dutchmen who established a small, short-lived settlement called House of Hope in Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut Rivers. Half of Connecticut was initially claimed by the Dutch colony New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware Rivers, although the firs ...
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