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Placing Rival Gang Members in Same Cell Not Per Se Unconstitutional
Loaded on April 15, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2014, page 40
Filed under:
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Gang Policies,
Failure to Protect (General).
Locations:
Arizona,
Hawaii.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals applied the harmless error test in finding that a district court’s late Rand summary judgment notice did not deprive a prisoner of substantial rights. Additionally, the appellate court held prison officials were not deliberately indifferent to a substantial risk of violence by placing two ...
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