California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Ruelas v. Harper, E051961 (Cal. App. 2015):
In Schwenk v. Hartford (9th Cir. 2000) 204 F.3d 1187, the court stated: "A sexual assault on an inmate by a guardregardless of the gender of the guard or of the prisoneris deeply 'offensive to human dignity.'" (Id. at p. 1197.) In Farmer, the court stated: "Being violently assaulted in prison is simply not 'part of the penalty that
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