AELE LAW LIBRARY OF CASE SUMMARIES:
Corrections Law for Jails, Prisons and
Detention Facilities
Electronic Monitoring
275:164 State department of corrections was not liable for prisoner's killing of a man on the street after he had violated terms of electronically monitored house arrest 158 times; correctional officials did not owe decedent a duty of protecting him against possibility of assault by prisoner by reincarcerating him. Brown, Estate of, v. Barian, 43 F.Supp.2d 1008 (E.D. Wis. 1999).