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Inadequate Prison Security Violates 8th Amendment

Loaded on Feb. 15, 1998 published in Prison Legal News February, 1998, page 18
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Prison/Jail Murders, Eighth Amendment, Staffing, Supervisory Liability, Premises Liability, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death). Location: Puerto Rico.
Afederal district court in Puerto Rico held a prison security officer could be held liable for a prisoner's murder when he knew of inadequate staff supervision and non functioning cell locks, among other things, and did nothing to improve security. Angel Orta Fernandez, a Puerto Rico prisoner, was killed by ...

 

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