Q: If your love one is in prison and they were assaulted is their anything that can be done about it?
Love one was stabbed multiple times in his sleep and the prison staff didn’t notify his family they wasn’t even on their post and allowed another inmate to come out of his area to attack my love one while he was sleeping and again when he woke up to defend himself when the other inmate came back to finish the job my love one had been asking to be transferred from the facility because of his safety and fear of his life but nothing was done about it until I took it upon myself and emailed an Official in Raleigh and they did an emergency transfer and moved him to a different facility and then I received an email back saying once investigation completed they will notify me so is their anything that can be done about this because he feel as though if the staff was doing their rounds and on their post none of this would have happened and if they would have transferred him his life wouldn’t have been in danger
A: The standard of care to hold a prison liable is whether the prison staff’s conduct rose the level of “deliberate indifference” in not taking steps to transfer your loved one to a safer place. Contact local civil rights counsel for more specific advice.
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