Legal Opinion
Giron v. Corrections Corp. of America
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided September 10, 1999No. 98-2231PublishedCited by 131 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL KELLY, Jr., Circuit Judge.
After the alleged rape of Plaintiff-Appellant Tanya Giron by Defendant-Appel- lee Danny Torrez, a corrections officer at the New Mexico Women’s Correctional Facility (“NMWCF”) where Ms. Giron was incarcerated, Ms. Giron brought the following claims in district court: (1) a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim against Mr. Torrez, alleging that the rape constituted excessive force in violation of her Eighth Amendment rights (count I); (2) a § 1983 claim against Defendant-Appellees Thomas Newton and Corrections Corporation of America (“CCA”) for deliberate indifference to the…
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