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Prisoners Entitled to Safe Jail
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1995, page 23
The eleventh circuit court of appeals has reaffirmed that county officials can be held liable for failing to protect jail detainees from violence by other detainees. In 1990 Larry Hale was held in the Tallapoosa County Jail in Alabama after failing to appear in court on a marijuana charge. The ...
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General),
Overcrowding,
Eighth Amendment,
Summary Judgment,
Municipal Liability.
Location:
Michigan.
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