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Knowledge of Risk May Establish 8th Amendment Liability

Loaded on Dec. 15, 1997 published in Prison Legal News December, 1997, page 29
Filed under: Gang Policies, Eighth Amendment, Civil Procedure, Evidentiary Ruling, Witnesses, Supervisory Liability, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death). Location: Michigan.
The court of appeals for the sixth circuit held that a prison investigator's report indicating a prisoner was at risk of attack was sufficient to establish eighth amendment liability on the part of supervisory prison officials, if they read it. The court also held that a prison warden's efforts to ...

 

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