inmate-safety

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23A951 Keyvon Sellers v. Jerry Nelson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Eddie Lee Nelson, Jr., Deceased, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-23 Presumed Complete deliberate-indifference fourteenth-amendment inmate-safety jail-intake qualified-immunity racial-animus Whether a jail intake officer can be held liable under the Fourteenth Amendment for deliberate indifference when aware of potential racial animus that…
22-7153 Tamar Devell Harvey v. Frederick Russell, Assistant Warden Fourth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-harm civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment inmate-safety prison-official prison-officials risk-of-serious-harm substantial-risk Whether the district court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's claim for failure to state a claim
21-7250 Michael Ray Fortuna v. Robert Hudgins, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment disability-accommodations due-process eighth-amendment inmate-safety isolation-conditions medical-neglect prison-conditions prisoner-rights Whether an inmate's placement on a top bunk after suffering injuries from a previous fall constitutes a constitutional violation
19-7252 Clarence Joseph Jason v. Robert Tanner, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-10 Denied IFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment deliberate-indifference due-process excessive-force inmate-safety prison-conditions qualified-immunity Whether a prison's 'control policy' that allows inmates to attack other inmates violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punis…
18-9144 Delbert Heard v. John R. Baldwin, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-protect inmate-safety prisoner-rights standing substantial-risk Whether the risk of inmate-on-inmate assault became sufficiently substantial to trigger 8th Amendment protections under Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 82…
18-6223 Martin Jonassen v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-04 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment administrative-procedure cell-conditions civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process facility-design habeas-corpus inmate-safety prison-conditions prison-overcrowding standing Whether the 5th Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's dismissal without a hearing and denial of petitioner's requests for injunctive and dec…