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City Immune in California Drunk Tank Beating Suit Because Prisoner Was Criminal, Not Civil Detainee

The California Supreme Court ruled that California Govt. Code § 844.6(a)(2) [governmental immunity for injury to prisoner] prevented a city jail detainee who had been beaten by another drunk tank prisoner from maintaining a government tort claim against the city for damages, because a jail prisoner is a criminal detainee, ...

 

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