Sandoval v. Wackenhut Correctional

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• recognizing that employees of a privately run correctional facility operated under contract with the federal government were not state actors for purposes of § 1983
• recognizing that employees of a privately run correctional facility operated under contract with the federal government were not state actors for purposes of § 1983
• rejecting federal inmate’s § 1983 claim against company acting pursuant to a contract with the federal government
• “Because Sandoval was a federal prisoner in the facility, which Wackenhut was under contract with the federal government to operate, his claims cannot be based on § 1983, because no state action was involved.”
• “Because Sandoval was a federal prisoner in the facility, which Wackenhut was under contract with the federal government to operate, his claims cannot be based on § 1983, because no state action was involved.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).