The following excerpt is from Nielsen v. Lopez, CASE NO. 1:14-cv-01608-AWI-MJS (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2015):
2004) (quoting Youngberg v. Romeo, 457 U.S. 307, 322 (1982)). Treatment is presumptively punitive when a civil "detainee is confined in conditions identical to, similar to, or more restrictive" than his criminal counterparts. Id. at 933.
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