LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal court in Arkansas denied a state prison warden’s request to dismiss an inmate’s complaint that officials failed to protect him from assault by other inmates, who beat him with padlocks that were unsecured in their rooms. The warden and chief of security were aware that the padlocks had previously been used in violence between inmates, yet allowed the locks to remain unsecured, which might constitute deliberate indifference.
Read the order **here and the magistrate’s recommendations here.
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