October 31, 2011
U.S. Supreme Court to decide private prison worker liability for constitutional violations
The U.S. Supreme Court this week will examine a prisoner's treatment at a privately run facility in Taft. The outcome could either shield or render more vulnerable the fast-growing private prison industry.
On Tuesday, University of Richmond law professor John Preis, pro bono attorney for Richard Lee Pollard, will have 30 minutes to convince justices that inmates held in privately run prisons enjoy the same constitutional right to sue employees over cruel and unusual punishment as do inmates in facilities run directly by the government...
LINK - FresnoBee.com
