Posts Tagged ‘use of force’
Eighth Circuit: Pepper Spraying Prisoner’s Genitals Not Excessive Force
By Christopher Zoukis The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has affirmed a district court’s finding that a Missouri prison guard did not use excessive force when he pepper sprayed a prisoner four times, including a shot straight to the genitals. Kevin Ward was imprisoned in administrative segregation at the South Central…
Read MoreMentally Ill, Disabled CDCR Prisoner Dies Following Use of Force Incident
On September 7, 2013, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) prisoner Joseph Duran, 35, a mentally ill inmate who breathed through the use of a tube in his throat, died following a use of force incident. He had been pepper-sprayed in the face for refusing to remove his hands from a food slot in…
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