Inmates Protest Pepper Spray at Chancery Court: Delaware Brief

Inmates Protest Pepper Spray at Chancery

A lawsuit in Delaware’s Chancery Court over pepper spray use in state prisons highlights the variety of equitable remedies available from a venue that’s better known for handling high-profile M&A disputes.

Today, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster will consider eight inmates’ bid for a preliminary injunction to stop the state Department of Correction from using oleoresin capsicum spray until authorities implement a policy requiring decontamination care for prisoners.

The class action claims inmates are left to “marinate” in chemicals several orders of magnitude hotter than jalapeno peppers, potentially causing chemical burns, blindness, respiratory ...