Smith v. Dept. of Corrections

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• holding that prisoner’s lengthy history of violence coupled with escape record created jury question on issue of foreseeability of victim’s injury
• DOC not entitled to immunity from liability where an inmate, negligently given preferential treatment and placed in inadequately supervised confinement, escapes and commits armed robbery injuring plaintiff

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