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Immunity for Shooting Escaping Prisoners
The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held, in this Indiana case, that prison guards will generally get qualified immunity when they shoot ad kill escaping prisoners. See: Kinney v. Indiana Youth Center, 950 F.2d 462 (7th Cir. 1991).
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