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No Immunity for Forcing Disabled Prisoner to Work

Loaded on Jan. 15, 1999 published in Prison Legal News January, 1999, page 9
Filed under: Disabled Prisoners, Work, Prison Labor, Inability to Work, Skeletal Injury, Qualified Immunity. Location: Missouri.
The court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a prison guard was not entitled to qualified immunity from money damages for forcing a prisoner to perform work he was physically incapable of doing. Ramon Sanchez, a Missouri state prisoner, had a medical exemption from performing hard labor due ...

 

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