Christopher S. Hall v. Allen Bennett and Stan Russell

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• vacating grant of summary judgment for defendants who forced inmate to strip electrical wire without protective gloves
• reversing summary judgment for prison officials who failed to provide electrical gloves to prisoner performing work as electrician
• claim of deliberate indifference where individual not trained as an electrician was ordered to work on a live circuit without protective gloves and was electrocuted
• “[A] jury could infer from the electrical safety code mandating the use of protective gloves when cutting into the insulation on live wires that the defendants knew pliers alone would not protect Hall from the risk of electrocution.”

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