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Failure to Protect in Prison Fight Violates 8th Amendment
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1998, page 28
Failure To Protect In Prison Fight Violates 8th Amendment
Filed under:
Gang Policies,
Civil Procedure,
Evidentiary Ruling,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death).
Location:
Texas.
In 1994, the duty of guards to protect prisoners in prison fights was clearly established by Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825 (1994) according to a federal district court in Texas. The survivors of Randy Payne, a Texas prisoner who suffered ...
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