What is the current state of the law on the issue of sexual harassment by female prison guards?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Smith v. Goss, 1:16-cv-01356-BAM (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2017):
view of female guards held constitutional). "Sexual harassment or abuse of an inmate by a corrections officer is a violation of the Eighth Amendment." Wood v. Beauclair, 692 F.3d 1041, 1046 (9th Cir.2012); see also Schwenk v. Hartford, 204 F.3d 1187, 1197 (9th Cir.2000) ("In the simplest and most absolute of terms ... prisoners [have a clearly established Eighth Amendment right] to be free from sexual abuse ....").
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