Legal Opinion
Rita F. Marsh, Cross-Appellee v. Dorothy Arn, Delores Furrow, Cross-Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 23, 1991No. 89-3415, 89-3449PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ENGEL, Senior Circuit Judge.
This litigation arises from an incident which occurred on December 20, 1985 at the Ohio Reformatory for Women when plaintiff Rita F. Marsh was attacked and severely beaten by a fellow inmate. Thereafter, Marsh brought suit against a num*1059ber of prison employees and officials charging them with acts and omissions which she alleged amounted to a deliberate indifference to her security needs as a state prisoner and were thus violative of her rights to be free from cruel and unusual punishment under the eighth amendment to the constitution. In these appeals we are called…
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