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Transfers May Violate Eighth Amendment

Loaded on May 15, 1993 published in Prison Legal News May, 1993, page 8
Filed under: Transfers, Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Failure to Protect (General), Qualified Immunity, Mental Health. Location: Michigan.
Timothy Taylor is a small, mentally retarded Michigan state prisoner. While at the Jackson state prison Taylor was transferred to a camp where he was raped. After being raped prison officials labeled him a homosexual and he was denied a job and resident home application. He claims that the screening ...

 

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