Merrriweather v. Marion County Sheriff.U.S. District Court PRISONER ON PRISONER ASSAULT Merrriweather v. Marion County Marion County is the name of seventeen counties in the United States of America, mostly named for General Francis Marion:
n. A person held in custody or confinement: a political detainee. Noun 1. detainee - some held in custody political detainee who was beaten and raped by fellow detainees sued a sheriff, claiming deprivation DEPRIVATION, ecclesiastical Punishment. A censure by which a clergyman is deprived of his parsonage, vicarage, or other ecclesiastical promotion or dignity. Vide Ayliffe's Parerg. 206; 1 Bl. Com. 393. of his due process rights and negligence. The district court denied the sheriff's motion to dismiss the action. The court found fact issues as to whether the sheriff had shown deliberate indifference to the risk posed to the detainee by housing him with detainees who had a record of prior violence, and whether the sheriff had immunity from the negligence claim under state law. The court also found material issues of fact as to whether the level of violence in the juvenile detention portion of the jail was significant and obvious, and whether the sheriff's policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental were systematically inadequate. The court noted that alleged material improvements in procedures for protecting jail detainees from assault, implemented after the detainee was beaten and raped by fellow detainees, were irrelevant in determining whether the due process rights of the detainee were violated vi·o·late tr.v. vi·o·lat·ed, vi·o·lat·ing, vi·o·lates 1. To break or disregard (a law or promise, for example). 2. To assault (a person) sexually. 3. . (Marion County Jail, Indiana) |
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