AELE LAW LIBRARY OF CASE SUMMARIES:
Corrections Law
for Jails, Prisons and Detention Facilities


     Back to list of subjects             Back to Legal Publications Menu

Electronic Monitoring

          275:164 State department of corrections was not liable for prisoner's killing of a man on the street after he had violated terms of electronically monitored house arrest 158 times; correctional officials did not owe decedent a duty of protecting him against possibility of assault by prisoner by reincarcerating him. Brown, Estate of, v. Barian, 43 F.Supp.2d 1008 (E.D. Wis. 1999).

Back to list of subjects             Back to Legal Publications Menu