William Hardin Bogard, Jr. v. Thomas D. Cook, Former Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1978-12-15

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CHARLES CLARK, Circuit Judge: William H. Bogard, a former prisoner at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parch-man, Mississippi (“Parchman”), filed this action to recover civil damages for personal injuries. While a Parchman inmate, Bogard was subjected to a series of corporal punishments and suffered two incidents of prison violence, one a stabbing that severed his spinal cord…

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