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Prison Supervisors Can be Liable for Guard’s Sexual Abuse
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2010
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2010, page 34
by David M. Reutter
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Civil Procedure,
Limitations,
Qualified Immunity,
Supervisory Liability.
Location:
Massachusetts.
In denying a motion to dismiss, the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts held on July 1, 2009 that prison supervisors could be held liable for the sexual abuse of a prisoner because they failed to train, supervise and investigate claims concerning repeated rumors of a guard’s ...
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