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Beating Shackled Prisoners States Claim
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1996, page 12
A federal district court in Georgia held that the eighth amendment prohibits the beatings of handcuffed and shackled prisoners. Federal prison employees are not immune to state law claims of assault and battery. The case involves two federal prisoners at the US Penitentiary in Atlanta, GA. They were housed in ...
Filed under:
Injury -- Misc.,
Eighth Amendment,
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Restraints,
State Law Claims,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Georgia.
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