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Prison Stabbing Violates Eight Amendment
The Sixth Circuit has held that a prisoner's Eighth Amendment rights were
violated when he was stabbed to death while prison guards watched and did
not render assistance.
Prisoner Jerry Fails was working as a janitor at the Tennessee State
Penitentiary when he was fatally stabbed by drunken prisoner Bert …
violated when he was stabbed to death while prison guards watched and did
not render assistance.
Prisoner Jerry Fails was working as a janitor at the Tennessee State
Penitentiary when he was fatally stabbed by drunken prisoner Bert …
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