Legal Opinion
William Hardin Bogard, Jr. v. Thomas D. Cook, Former Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 15, 1978No. 76-2890PublishedCited by 139 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHARLES CLARK, Circuit Judge:
William H. Bogard, a former prisoner at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parch-man, Mississippi (“Parchman”), filed this action to recover civil damages for personal injuries. While a Parchman inmate, Bogard was subjected to a series of corporal punishments and suffered two incidents of prison violence, one a stabbing that severed his spinal cord and rendered him a permanent paraplegic. Bogard sued various supervisory officials, employees and inmates at Parchman, based on 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and pendent state tort claims. A three-week trial ended with a…
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3Cited by139 opinions
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