Genaro Lopez v. Kenneth Lemaster, Individually and as Sheriff of Jackson County

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• holding that unsafe conditions claim survived summary judgment where reports to prison officials revealed deficiencies in staff and back up, training, and supervision of inmates
• holding that evidence including “at least one prior attack at the jail” was sufficient to show the existence of a substantial risk of harm due to understaffing and insufficient monitoring of inmates
• recognizing that a plaintiff must identify a specific training deficiency that is “closely related to his ultimate injury, and must prove that the deficiency in training actually caused [an employee] to act with deliberate indifference to his safety”
• explaining that the plaintiff brought the suit against the employee, but not the municipality
• finding that at summary judgment stage objective component of Eighth Amendment claim was satisfied by evidence that understaffing and lack of inmate monitoring had led to previous attacks at the jail
• finding that sheriff was on notice when he admitted that he had been aware of deficiencies in jail staffing and surveillance and had tried to correct them but had not been provided adequate funding to do so

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).