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No Qualified Immunity for Guard Who Failed to Protect Prisoner from Sexual Abuse
Loaded on April 15, 2012
by Brandon Sample
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2012, page 45
On February 1, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a district court’s denial of qualified immunity to a guard accused of failing to protect a vulnerable prisoner from sexual assault, but reversed as to the denial of qualified immunity to three other guards.
Filed under:
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Failure to Protect (General),
Immunity/Liability,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Michigan.
Russell Bishop, …
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