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No Immunity for Failure to Protect Prisoner from Violence

Loaded on Dec. 15, 1996 published in Prison Legal News December, 1996, page 21
Filed under: Injury -- Misc., Conditions of Confinement, Failure to Protect (General), Damages, Appeals, Qualified Immunity. Location: South Dakota.
The court of appeals for the eighth circuit held that prisoners have a clearly established right to be protected from violence by other prisoners. The court also gave a detailed discussion of appellate jurisdiction in reviewing interlocutory appeals by prison officials who have been denied qualified immunity at the trial ...

 

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