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| punishment had been violated by the "contraband watch" and that he had a due process right to be heard before he was placed on the watch. The second argument Chappell made was weak. But the first one raised profound questions about how far prison officials can go in their zeal to secure their facilities from drugs -- and how far the courts can go in providing some oversight over those prison officials when their treat inmates the way Chappell was treated.Prison officials said they were immune from the lawsuit because the United States Supreme Court has long recognized that government officials are protected from civil damages "insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known." To be held liable,tory burch outlet, a prison guard has to have "fair warning" that his actions are unconstitutional and if he instead "reasonably believes" that his conduct complies with the law he may be protected by the |
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