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Alabama Guards Liable in Killing a Prisoner
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2006, page 38
Filed under:
Water,
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Qualified Immunity,
Wrongful Death,
Suicides.
Location:
Alabama.
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed an Alabama federal district courts grant of summary judgment to guards in a civil rights suit stemming from the killing of a prisoner by guards during a struggle.
Following a successful escape attempt at Alabamas Mt. Meigs Youth Facility, seventeen-year-old Mario …
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