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Private Prison Guard Is State Actor for § 1983 Purposes

Loaded on July 15, 1999 published in Prison Legal News July, 1999, page 14
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Civil Procedure, State Law Claims, Parties, Supervisory Liability, Contractor Liability, Sovereign Immunity, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness). Location: New Mexico.
Private Prison Guard is State Actor for § 1983 Purposes

Afederal district court in New Mexico held that a guard employed by Corrections Corporation of America was a "state actor" acting under "color of state law" when he allegedly raped a woman prisoner. The court also held that the guard …

 

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