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Cell Feed Status May Give Jailer Actual Notice of Need to Protect Prisoner
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2000, page 22
The First Circuit has held that the fact a jail supervisor knew a prisoner was on cell feed status may have given him actual notice of the prisoner's protective custody status when he placed the prisoner in a holding cell where he was assaulted by another prisoner.
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General),
Supervisory Liability,
Municipal Liability,
Failure to Train/Supervise.
Location:
Maine.
Shawn Giroux was ...
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