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Third Circuit Sets High Standard for Supervisory Liability
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2003, page 8
by Matthew T. Clarke
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Criminal Prosecution,
Supervisory Liability,
Guards/Staff,
ACA.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
The court of appeals for the Third Circuit has set a very high standard for proving supervisory liability in a case involving a guard who repeatedly sexually assaulted female juvenile prisoners over the course of several years.
Annie Marie Beers-Capitol and Aliya Tate, two former residents ...
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