MARTIN v. WHITE

No. 83-2712.

742 F.2d 469 (1984)

Gary MARTIN and Michael L. Gleason, Appellants, v. Carl WHITE, Superintendent, Steve Long, Dr. Lee Roy Black, and Lew Kollias, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 29, 1984.

Rehearing Denied September 21, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wion, Burke & Boll by Mason W. Klippel, Clayton, Mo., for appellants.

John Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Rosalynn Van Hefst, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Mo., for appellees.

Before ROSS, Circuit Judge, HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.


ROSS, Circuit Judge.

In this case we deal with a subject matter which has become a national disgrace in some of our nation's prisons. We speak, of course, of the inability or unwillingness of some prison administrators to take the necessary steps to protect their prisoners from sexual and physical assaults by other inmates.

Gary Martin and Michael Gleason, inmates of the Missouri Training Center for Men in Moberly, Missouri, were sexually threatened and assaulted...

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