Opinion ID: 2516126
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Expert Testimony Regarding Accepted Practices To Deter Sexual Misconduct

Text: Thomas Frame, a corrections consultant who had worked as a Pennsylvania prison warden for twenty-four years, testified for Cash as an expert witness. Frame pronounced it bad policy for ECHC to allow male guards to be alone and unmonitored with female prisoners. Id. at 531. He explained that such a practice jeopardized the safety of female prisoners because the male guard has authority over the inmate and ... can direct that inmate to do almost anything he wants. Id. at 532. Frame testified that good and accepted practice is to pair a female officer with a male officer whenever direct interaction with a female prisoner is required. Id. at 533. He further testified that the Allen complaint should have alerted defendants to the need for such a policy. See id. Frame opined that the Gipson Memorandum was an inadequate response to the Allen complaint because it failed to remove the situation posing a risk to female prisoners, i.e., allowing a single unmonitored male deputy to interact with female prisoners. Id. at 534. Defendants offered no contrary expert opinion.