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Alaska High Court Reaffirms Negligence Standard to Protect Prisoners from Harm
Loaded on July 31, 2015
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2015, page 50
Filed under:
Failure to Protect (General).
Location:
Alaska.
Alaska High Court Reaffirms Negligence Standard to Protect Prisoners from Harm
by David Reutter
The Alaska Supreme Court, in a negligence suit filed by a former prisoner, reaffirmed its standard that a jailer has a duty to protect prisoners from all reasonably foreseeable harm. As to the merits of the ...
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