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Risk of Serious Harm States Claim

Loaded on Aug. 15, 1998 published in Prison Legal News August, 1998, page 29
Filed under: Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Conditions of Confinement, Failure to Protect (General), Physical Injury Rule, Qualified Immunity, Municipal Liability. Location: New York.
A federal district court in New York held that jail officials can be held liable for exposing jail detainees to a significant risk of serious harm, whether or not any injury actually occurs. The court also held that jail conditions intended to be punitive are also unconstitutional. Richard Heisler was …

 

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