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Sheriff Liable for Inadequate Staffing and Refusing Medical Treatment to Assaulted Prisoner
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1999, page 20
The Tenth Circuit court of appeals held that a sheriff may be liable for insufficient jail staffing and refusing medical treatment to a prisoner who was beaten by other prisoners.
Filed under:
Injury -- Misc.,
Crime/Demographics,
Informants,
Failure to Protect (General),
Staffing,
Parties,
Municipal Liability,
Failure to Train/Supervise.
Location:
Oklahoma.
Genaro Lopez was a prisoner in the Jackson County Oklahoma jail. The day he arrived at the jail and was ...
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