Preston A. Washington, Jr. v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the negligent failure to provide prison guards a safe working environment does not violate due process
• concluding “that the reckless failure of state officials to remedy unsafe prison conditions does not deprive a prison guard of a liberty interest secured by the Fourteenth Amendment”
• explaining prior cases addressing due process claims under Section 1983 “draw a distinction between those rights secured by the Constitution or federal law and those secured only under state tort law; section 1983 provides a remedy only for injuries to the former”
• “The state did not force appellant to become a guard, and the state has no constitutional obligation to protect him from the hazards inherent in that occupation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).