Iron Mountain, MI asked in Civil Rights for Michigan

Q: what can be done about an inmate do about being assaulted by another inmate if they are totally disabled

the disabled inmate was to be transferred out the day before into another unit and when the assault occurred he was coming in from the yard and the other inmate assaulted him the day after he was suppose to be transferred out but was still in the same unit everything was recorded on video so they had to dismiss his fighting ticket and moved him but the gash on his head was not treated and ended up with mersa which drained into his left ear causing hearing loss and now is in a wheelchair with no feeling from the waist down at all in carson city correctional facility after being moved from st. louis correctional facility for d.u.i. 3 and was over scored from the parole department when he was in court

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Brent T. Geers
Brent T. Geers
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  • Criminal Law Lawyer
  • Grand Rapids, MI
  • Licensed in Michigan

A: When it comes to prison issues, there is very little you or I can do about anything that happens in there. The Michigan Department of Corrections has absolute control over what goes on, who gets transferred when and where, etc. There is a grievance process that prisoners MUST exhaust if they hope to have any relief by a court.

You should encourage this person to report what is going on to the appropriate prison staff if he hasn't done so already. If the prison is not properly informed of an issue, they can't be very well liable for it. However if there is a record of information, and they fail to act appropriately, that's another matter.

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