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No Qualified Immunity for Guard Who Failed to Protect Prisoner from Sexual Abuse

On February 1, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a district court’s denial of qualified immunity to a guard accused of failing to protect a vulnerable prisoner from sexual assault, but reversed as to the denial of qualified immunity to three other guards.

Russell Bishop, ...

 

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