U.S. district court: officer on prisoner assault.

• Position: Failure to Protect

Broner v. Flynn, 311 F.Supp.2d 227 (D.Mass. 2004). A state prisoner brought a civil rights action against a county sheriff, alleging violation of his rights as the result of injuries he received during an assault by another prisoner. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants. The court held that the prisoner failed to show that any acts or omissions by the sheriff in his individual capacity amounted to reckless or callous indifference to the prisoner's Eighth Amendment rights. The court found that an officer, who had gone into the...