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Tenth Circuit Holds Jail Guard May be Liable for Prisoner-on-Prisoner Assault
Loaded on Nov. 6, 2017
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2017, page 25
Filed under:
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Jail Specific,
Failure to Protect (Staff).
Location:
Colorado.
On November 14, 2016, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the denial of qualified immunity to a Colorado jail guard who failed to protect a prisoner from being assaulted.
James Durkee was incarcerated at the Summit County Detention Center when he was attacked by fellow prisoner Ricky Michael Ray ...
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