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  No Qualified Immunity for Unsafe Working Conditions
  Loaded on April 15, 2000
  
  
    
      published in Prison Legal News
      April, 2000, page 4
    
  
  
  
  
    
      
    
    
      
        A federal district court in New York held that a risk of future harm to a prisoner from dangerous chemicals at his prison job violates a clearly established right, from which prison officials are not immune. The court further held that the statute of limitations in these matters does not ...
    
  
    
        Filed under:
          
          Work,
          
          Prison Industries,
          
          Prison Labor,
          
          Workplace Injury,
          
          Work Conditions/Safety,
          
          Toxic Fumes/Chemicals,
          
          Limitations,
          
          Qualified Immunity.
          
    
    
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        New York.
      
    
  
  
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