Charles W. Andrews v. Leroy Siegel, Tom Dowdle, Robert Erickson, John Twohig, and State of Minnesota

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• “[S]ome violence in prisons may be unavoidable due to the character of the prisoners.”
• “this was not a case where there was a history over a considerable period of time of hostility and violence by one inmate to another”
• to establish reckless disregard of right to be free from inmate attack, plaintiff must show he faced pervasive risk of harm and officials failed to respond reasonably; single incident not pervasive risk
• fact that inmate Wright had no problems with any other prisoner during seven-month period preceding incident of violence with fellow inmate supported prison's conclusion that Wright had not posed a serious threat
• alleged deficiencies with screening and admission procedures were not proved

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