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Qualified Immunity Denied in CO Rape Case; Suit Settled for $70,000
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2001, page 8
In an unpublished ruling, the Tenth Circuit has denied qualified immunity to prison officials who failed to protect a prisoner from being raped by another prisoner.
Filed under:
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General),
Damages,
Settlements,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Colorado.
Marvin Gray, a "large and powerful individual with a violent past," was a prisoner at Colorado's Limon Correctional Facility (LCF) in 1993. He had ...
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