United States Eleventh Circuit

The allegation that the prison knew that locks on the prison cells did not work, preventing the isolation of prisoners from each other and giving prisoners ready access to assault other prisoners, is sufficient to overcome the prison's qualified immunity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/26/2001
• Published 09/26/2001

Judges

• EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:, Before ANDERSON, Chief Judge, and TJOFLAT, EDMONDSON, BIRCH, DUBINA, BLACK, CARNES, BARKETT, HULL, MARCUS and WILSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert E. Toone, Jr.,Tamara H. Serwer, Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kendrick Emerson Webb, Bart Gregory Harmon, Webb & Eley, P.C., Montgomery, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.