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Inadequate Jail Staffing Violates Due Process

Loaded on April 15, 1997 published in Prison Legal News April, 1997, page 13
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Conditions of Confinement, Staffing, Jail Specific, Municipal Liability. Location: Texas.
The court of appeals for the fifth circuit held that a jail staffing practice that allowed a lone male guard to oversee female detainees could be held to violate due process after a woman detainee was raped by a guard. The court held that financial considerations alone do not justify …

 

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