Is a prison guard's physical sexual assault of an inmate offensive to human dignity and may violate the Eighth Amendment?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Blackshire v. Sacramento Cnty. Sheriff, No. 2:16-cv-2537-EFB P (E.D. Cal. 2017):
(internal quotation marks omitted)). A guard's physical sexual assault of an inmate, however, is "offensive to human dignity" and may violate the Eighth Amendment. Schwenk v. Hartford, 204 F.3d 1187, 1196-97 (9th Cir. 1987).
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