Legal Opinion
Larry Cannon v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided April 1, 1981No. 79-1762PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge WALD.
WALD, Circuit Judge:
Society sends convicted men and women to prison to punish them through loss of liberty and deprivation of the comforts of life, to rehabilitate them, and to keep them out of the community until such time as they can live by its rules. It does not and should not send them to prison to be beaten, maimed, savaged, even killed, by their fellow inmates. Excessive failure on the part of prison officials to protect inmates from such assaults, leading to a virtual “reign[] .. . [of] terror,” has been justifiably held to constitute…
2Cases cited30 opinions
- United States v. OrleansSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Reid v. CovertSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Logue v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Swain v. PressleySupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Gene Woodhous v. Commonwealth of VirginiaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1973
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3Cited by38 opinions
- Bettye Delores Pitts, Gwendolyn A. Samuels v. Richard ThornburghCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1989
- Gerald B. Murphy, a Minor, by and Through His Parents and Next of Friends, Girlie A. Murphy and William C. Murphy v. United States of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1981
- Floyd v. District of ColumbiaCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1997
- Adela T. Bailor and Darryl Bailor v. Salvation Army and United States of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1995
- Linda M. Nelson, Parent of Nelson, Tracey R. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1988
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