Lawrence Thomas v. Cumberland County

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• holding that in certain circumstances the need for training can be so obvious that failing to provide it constitutes deliberate indifference
• concluding that the history of fights in a prison could lead a reasonable jury to find it was likely that an officer who lacked appropriate training would violate an inmate’s rights
• explaining that “the identified deficiency in a city’s training program must be closely related to the ultimate injury”
• holding inmate-on-inmate assault was predictable result of failure to train correctional staff in de-escalation techniques
• noting that failure to train amounting to deliberate indifference is a way to bring a Monell claim, which is the fourth avenue
• vacating grant of defendant’s motion for summary judgment where prison with frequent fights among inmates failed to provide de-escalation and intervention training to correctional officers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).