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Snitch Jacketing States 8th Amendment Claim
Loaded on March 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1998, page 21
Afederal district court in New York held that a prison guard calling a prisoner a snitch with the intention of causing the prisoner harm by other prisoners states a claim for violation of the eighth amendment. Anthony Watson, a New York state prison, filed suit claiming a guard told prisoners ...
Filed under:
Snitch Jacketing,
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General).
Location:
New York.
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