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Record of Previous Violence Gives Jail Officials Constructive Notice of Attack on Prisoner

On March 20, 2007, a New York state court of appeals held that a prisoner’s previous propensity for attacking other prisoners without provocation or warning and his housing in segregation served as sufficient constructive notice of the probability he would attack other prisoners.

Alex Rivera, a City of New York ...

 

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