Damages awarded to prisoner after attack

Judge agrees jail failed to protect child rapist from other inmates

He argued that Correctional Services officials were negligent because they had failed to prevent the prisoner arming himself with the blade and had failed to ensure his safety by segregating him from other inmates.

These measures, he said, pointed to an acceptance of risk associated with mingling the security prisoners with the general body of inmates and “must‚ in my view‚ indicate that the prison officials foresaw that the possibility of harm would eventuate if they were not segregated”.