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  Failure to Protect Informant Claim Set for Trial
  Loaded on April 15, 1998
  
  
    
      published in Prison Legal News
      April, 1998, page 10
    
  
  
  
  
    
      
    
    
      
        A federal district court in Kansas held that disputed facts required a trial to resolve whether prison officials were deliberately indifferent to a prisoner's safety. Mark Dowling is a prisoner informant in Lansing, Kansas. On August 11, 1994, Lt. Gordon Brown received a note stating Dowling would be killed or ...
    
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