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Inadequate Prison Security Violates 8th Amendment
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1998, page 18
Afederal district court in Puerto Rico held a prison security officer could be held liable for a prisoner's murder when he knew of inadequate staff supervision and non functioning cell locks, among other things, and did nothing to improve security. Angel Orta Fernandez, a Puerto Rico prisoner, was killed by …
Filed under:
Crime/Demographics,
Prison/Jail Murders,
Eighth Amendment,
Staffing,
Supervisory Liability,
Premises Liability,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death).
Location:
Puerto Rico.
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