The 9th Circuit has allowed an inmate’s civil rights suit to go forward, ruling that guards who supervise voluntary work programs have no qualified immunity when they order prisoners to use equipment known to be dangerous. The unanimous ruling rejected the summary judgment motion of a Washington state prison guard who allegedly told the inmate to continue work and “just be very careful” in response to the inmate’s complaint about a defective printing press, before the press tore the inmate’s thumb off.
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Posted on Wednesday, October 11th, 2006. Filed under: Employment, Law Misc
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