Whiting v. Marathon County Sheriff's Dept.U.S. Appeals Court PRISONER ON PRISONER ASSAULT Whiting v. Marathon County Sheriff's Dept., 382 F.3d 700 (7th Cir. 2004). A prisoner brought a suit against a sheriff's department, jail officials and guards for allegedly violating her Eighth Amendment rights. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants and the prisoner appealed. The appeals court affirmed af·firm v. af·firmed, af·firm·ing, af·firms v.tr. 1. To declare positively or firmly; maintain to be true. 2. To support or uphold the validity of; confirm. v.intr. , finding that jail officials who had no knowledge of a no-contact order prohibiting a second inmate INMATE. One who dwells in a part of another's house, the latter dwelling, at the same time, in the said house. Kitch. 45, b; Com. Dig. Justices of the Peace, B 85; 1 B. & Cr. 578; 8 E. C. L. R. 153; 2 Dowl. & Ry. 743; 8 B. & Cr. 71; 15 E. C. L. R. 154; 2 Man. & Ry. 227; 9 B. & Cr. from contacting the prisoner, were not deliberately indifferent INDIFFERENT. To have no bias nor partiality. 7 Conn. 229. A juror, an arbitrator, and a witness, ought to be indifferent, and when they are not so, they may be challenged. See 9 Conn. 42. to a substantial risk of serious harm to the prisoner when they placed her in an interview room with the inmate and his attorney. While she was in the room with the inmate and his attorney, she was coerced and threatened. (Marathon County Jail, Wisconsin Wisconsin, state, United States Wisconsin (wĭskŏn`sən, –sĭn), upper midwestern state of the United States. It is bounded by Lake Superior and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, from which it is divided by the Menominee ) |
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