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No Qualified Immunity for Private Prisons; Supreme Court Grants Review

Loaded on Feb. 15, 1997 published in Prison Legal News January, 1997, page 11
Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Injury -- Misc., Restraints, Qualified Immunity, Contractor Liability. Location: Tennessee.
The court of appeals for the sixth circuit held that guards employed by private, for profit prisons are not entitled to qualified immunity from suit. This is the first circuit court ruling to squarely address whether private prisons are entitled to qualified immunity. Until now only district courts had ruled ...

 

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