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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Jailer to pay for not helping inmate

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal court in Louisiana ordered a correctional officer to pay $10,000 in compensatory damages, as well as $12,500 in attorney fees, to a prisoner who was burned and stabbed by another inmate while the guard watched. His failure to intervene or render aid afterwards constituted deliberate indifference in violation of the inmate’s Eighth Amendment rights.

Read the ruling here.

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