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Ohio Prison Supervisors Possibly Liable for Employing Known Racist Guard
Loaded on May 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2002, page 27
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a district court's grant of summary judgment to Ohio prison officials and remanded for trial a case involving alleged official indifference to the actions of a known racist guard. The appeals court held that, given the number of complaints against the guard ...
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Racial Discrimination,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Supervisory Liability.
Location:
Ohio.
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