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Private Prison Contractor Not Entitled to Immunity
Loaded on May 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2001, page 6
A State court of appeals in West Virginia has held that a private contractor of youth incarceration services is not entitled to immunity under the Governmental Tort Claims and Insurance Reform Act (the Act), W.Va. Code §§ 2912A1 to 18.
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Youth Service Systems,
Contractor Liability,
Suicides.
Location:
West Virginia.
Tracy Galloway initiated delinquency proceedings against her fourteen-yearold son. The …
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