Sheppard v. Phoenix.

• Position: FAILURE TO PROTECT - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

OFFICER ON PRISONER ASSAULT

Sheppard v. Phoenix, 210 F.Supp.2d 450 (S.D.N.Y. 2002). Current and former inmates filed a class action alleging that city corrections officials engaged in a pattern of brutality and used gratuitous and excessive physical violence at a segregation unit. A detailed consent decree was implemented. The city moved to terminate the decree and the district court granted the motion. The district court noted positive trends for four years of reduced incidents...