Does a prison officer have a duty to protect inmates from violence?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Patterson v. Harrington, CASE No. 1:12-cv-00440-MJS (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2012):
measures to guarantee the safety of inmates and officials have a duty to protect prisoners from violence. Farmer, 511 U.S. at 832-33; see also Frost v. Agnos, 152 F.3d 1124, 1128 (9th Cir. 1998). "[T]he official must both [have been] aware of facts from which the inference could be drawn that a substantial risk of serious harm exist[ed], and he must also [have] draw [n] the inference." Farmer, 511 U.S. at 837.
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