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Wyoming Sheriff Granted Qualified Immunity for Jail Guard’s Sexual Assault

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2013 published in Prison Legal News December, 2013, page 46
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Guard Misconduct, Jail Misconduct, Immunity/Liability, Qualified Immunity. Location: Wyoming.
The Wyoming Supreme Court has held that a county sheriff was improperly denied qualified immunity on claims that a guard in his employ sexually assaulted a female prisoner.

While working as a jail guard in Utah, Todd Hoover underwent back surgery, became addicted to pain pills and stole prisoners’ medication. ...

 

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