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Warden Liable for Prison Rape
Loaded on July 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1996, page 10
The court of appeals for the sixth circuit held that supervisory prison officials can held liable under the eighth amendment when they ignore the risk of sexual assault to vulnerable prisoners that are later raped. Timothy Taylor is a Michigan state prisoner who is 5 feet tall, weighs 120 pounds, …
Filed under:
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Failure to Protect (General),
Overcrowding,
Eighth Amendment,
Expert Witnesses,
Supervisory Liability,
Mental Health.
Location:
Michigan.
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