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New York City Liable for Foreseeable Prisoner-on-Prisoner Murder

Loaded on Oct. 15, 2009

Filed under: State Law Claims, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Juveniles, Failure to Protect (Juveniles), Juvenile Prisons. Location: New York.

The Appellate Department of the New York Supreme Court held that because New York City (NYC) jail guards escorting a prisoner had “actual knowledge” of his previous violent assaultive behavior, they could not evade liability for the prisoner’s act of murdering another prisoner.

On March 26, 2005, prisoner Alex Rivera ...

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