Cupples v. State

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• explaining that failure to place a guard in each prison unit at all times did not breach the prison official’s general duty to exercise reasonable and ordinary care to prevent inmate violence
• Summary judgment was affirmed for the Department of Corrections and prison officials concerning a negligence claim for an eye injury to Cupples, a female inmate, by another inmate, Young. Although Cupples had problems with other inmates, she never had any prior difficulties with Young.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).