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Eighth Circuit Reverses Transport Rape Summary Judgment

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that prison officials were not entitled to summary judgment on a female prisoner’s claim that she was raped during transport.

On December 15, 2005, Missouri prisoner Penny Whitson was being transported from the Stone County Jail to the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC), ...

 

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