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Fifth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Suit Against Prison Contractor

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Private Prisons, Cornell Corrections, Failure to Protect (General), Eleventh Amendment Immunity. Location: Texas.

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held in an unpublished opinion that
a prisoner's lawsuit against a private prison operator should not have been
dismissed on Eleventh Amendment immunity grounds.

While confined in a prison operated by Cornell Corrections Corporation
(CCC), Charles Akomolafe Abayomi was attacked by a gang ...

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