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Jail Not Liable for Prisoner’s Rape by Cellmate

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2008

Filed under: Sexual Assault, Prisoner-Prisoner Assault. Location: Arkansas.

The plaintiff was raped by his cellmate in a county jail holding cell after being arrested for public intoxication. Defendants knew the cellmate was a disruptive individual but the district court found that they did not know he posed a risk of serious injury to the plaintiff because the plaintiff ...

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