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Rape Victim States Claim
Loaded on June 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1994, page 11
James Johnson is a Connecticut state prisoner. He filed suit against various prison officials claiming they were deliberately indifferent to his physical safety after he was placed in a cell with a prisoner who had a known history of sexual assaults who raped him. He claimed prison officials then failed …
Filed under:
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General),
Eleventh Amendment Immunity,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Connecticut.
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