Legal Opinion
Gary Martin and Michael L. Gleason v. Carl White, Superintendent, Steve Long, Dr. Lee Roy Black, and Lew Kollias
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 21, 1984No. 83-2712PublishedCited by 110 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
In this case we deal with a subject matter which has become a national disgrace in some of our nation’s prisons. We speak, of course, of the inability or unwillingness of some prison administrators to take the necessary steps to protect their prisoners from sexual and physical assaults by other inmates.
Gary Martin and Michael Gleason, inmates of the Missouri Training Center for Men in Moberly, Missouri, were sexually threatened and assaulted by fellow inmates in 1981. They brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Carl White, Superintendent of the Missouri…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Rhodes v. ChapmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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