Palmer v. Marion County.

• Position: FAILURE TO PROTECT - Deliberate indifference to safety - Brief Article

U.S. Appeals Court

PRISONER ON PRISONER ASSAULT

Palmer v. Marion County, 327 F.3d 588 (7th Cir. 2003). A pretrial detainee who was severely beaten by other inmates at a county jail, brought a [section] 1983 claim alleging deliberate indifference to his safety and failure to properly train and supervise jail officials. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants and the appeals court affirmed. The appeals court held that the detainee's affidavit that stated he personally observed the county jail's practices of segregating inmates by race, placing gang members with...