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No Interlocutory Appeal on Supervisory Liability When Guard Stabs Prisoner

The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit held that it lacked jurisdiction to hear a warden's interlocutory appeal disputing material facts in the case. The court also held that letters from a prisoner alerting supervisory prison officials to risks or dangers are sufficient to impose liability on those officials ...

 

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