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Fear Constitutes Actual Injury

Loaded on Aug. 15, 1995 published in Prison Legal News August, 1995, page 20
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Failure to Protect (General), Eighth Amendment, Physical Injury Rule. Location: Illinois.
A district court in Illinois has held that the fear a prisoner experiences when attacked by another prisoner, in the absence of any physical injury, is sufficient injury to state a claim for compensatory damages under section 1983. Anthony Jones is an Illinois state prisoner in protective custody. He claimed ...

 

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