Health Care & Hospital Law,
Government
May 2, 2022
Prison officials fight claims they knowingly spread COVID to San Quentin
The officials involved are allowed qualified immunity because these cases have numerous circumstances that would cause a reasonable official to believe their conduct was constitutional and would not violate the rights of inmates, argued Supervising Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey T. Fisher.
Ranking officials in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, California Institution for Men and San Quentin State Prison are fighting to dismiss claims they knowingly created a higher risk of exposure to COVID-19 for prison inmates and guards when 122 inmates who had not been tested were transferred from Chino to San Quentin, leading to one of the nation’s worst outbreaks in the early stages of the pandemic.
During a motion hear...
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