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Third Circuit: Prison Officials Liable for Failing to Protect Informant
Loaded on July 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2013, page 50
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held on September 24, 2012 that prison officials may be held liable for failing to protect an informant held in a Special Housing Unit (SHU). The appellate court affirmed in part and reversed in part a Pennsylvania federal district court's order on a motion ...
Filed under:
Retaliation,
Retaliatory Segregation,
Informants,
Failure to Protect (General),
Informants (Failure to Protect).
Location:
Pennsylvania.
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