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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums9th Circuit: Prison guards have a constitutional duty to protect inmates from sexual assault
https://www.pubaccountability.org/clearly-established/aberha-victoryDecision
We represented the inmate on appealand we obtained a total victory. The Ninth Circuits decision, issued earlier today, affirms that prison guards have a constitutional duty to protect inmates from sexual assault. It explains that since 2009, it has been clear that a correctional officers doing nothing in response to an inmates pleas for help after the inmates cellmate threatened physical violence is unreasonableand, therefore, that it violates the Eighth Amendment. Read the whole decision here.
multigraincracker
(32,722 posts)dont be surprised when they act like them. We could learn a lot from Western Europe about prisons and schools.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...its far-right majority gets off on the thought of prisoners being raped. Especially Clarence Thomas, who's shown a long pattern of indifference to the sufferings of prisoners...
Bettie
(16,126 posts)seriously, there is no way this stands.
CaptainTruth
(6,602 posts)Eliminate qualified immunity, everywhere, PERIOD!
DENVERPOPS
(8,845 posts)Pueblo Colorado.... Police Shooting of unarmed individual, point blank range, FULL VIDEO........includes everything before, during, and after he quite literally murdered the guy........Pueblo government cleared the cop of all charges????????????
It is, in all honesty, getting worse...........some kind of screwed up world..........
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,434 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,331 posts)Knowingly allowing rape to happen makes the guards culpable as participants.