Remedying Prison Abuse: Insight into a Successful Claim

From time to time, the PRC will share summaries of court decisions that may be of interest to the field. In this issue, Professor Brenda Smith and colleagues describe a case in which the U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia, awarded compensatory and punitive damages to plaintiff Alysha Honeycutt for the sexual assaults committed by defendant Raheem Rumsey at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women.