Female prisoners.

• Position: Brief Article

U.S. District Court

SEXUAL ASSAULT MEDICAL CARE

Goode v. Correctional Medical Services. 168 F.Supp.2d 289 (D.Del. 2001). An inmate sued various prison officials, a third party medical contractor, and the contractor's nursing employees alleging excessive force, sexual assault and Eighth Amendment violations in connection with an obstetric examination. The district court held that the inmate had sufficiently exhausted administrative remedies, the third-party medical contractor had no civil rights liability on the basis of respondeat superior, and the inmate stated an Eighth Amendment claim...