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No P.C. for Informants
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1997, page 4
The court of appeals for the eighth circuit held prison officials were not liable when a prison informant was assaulted after being evicted from protective custody (PC). Missouri prisoner Ricky Davis is described by the court as "a prison informant." Davis was placed in PC in 1991 due to having ...
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