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Jury Verdict Affirmed in Arkansas Prisoner Attack
Loaded on May 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1998, page 19
The court of appeals for the eighth circuit affirmed a jury verdict that found a prison guard liable for failing to protect two prisoners from attack by another prisoner. Arkansas state prisoners Lonell Newman and Hoseia Chestnut were both attacked by a prisoner named Johnson who, armed with a knife, ...
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General),
Premises Liability.
Location:
Arkansas.
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