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No Qualified Immunity for Texas Sheriff and CCRI Guards Who Abused Missouri Prisoners
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1999, page 18
by Matthew Clarke
Filed under:
Out of State Transfers,
Private Prisons,
Capital Correctional Resources Inc,
Contractor Misconduct,
Jail Misconduct,
Strip Searches,
Prison/Common Area Searches,
Body Cavity Searches,
Staffing,
Clothing,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Stun Guns/Tasers,
Pepper Spray/Tear Gas,
Dogs,
Qualified Immunity,
Supervisory Liability,
Municipal Liability,
Contractor Liability.
Locations:
Missouri,
Texas.
Afederal district court in Texas has ruled that prisoners who were kicked, bitten by dogs, shocked, and subjected to a public strip and body cavity search by untrained, improperly supervised private guards during a shakedown presented sufficient evidence to defeat the guards' motion for summary judgment.
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