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Failure to Protect from HIV-Positive Prisoner Negates Qualified Immunity Defense

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that prison officials are not entitled to qualified immunity in a civil rights action filed by three prisoners at South Dakota's Mike Durfee State Prison. The prisoners alleged that prison officials failed to protect them from Paul Soyars, an HIV-positive prisoner. Plaintiffs ...

 

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