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Supervisors Liable for Excessive Force
Loaded on March 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1998, page 22
The court of appeals for the eighth circuit affirmed an award of compensatory and punitive damages against a guard who beat a handcuffed and unresisting prisoner, the four guards who held the prisoner down during the attack, the lieutenant who supervised the beating and the warden who had repeatedly ignored ...
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Eighth Amendment,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Restraints,
Civil Procedure,
Damages,
Evidentiary Ruling,
Qualified Immunity,
Supervisory Liability.
Location:
Missouri.
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