Court Opinion

ID: 9665665
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 00:54:06.253298+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:01:24.784367
License: Public Domain

BIEGELMEIER, Judge
(concurring).
The Jail Rules and Regulations adopted by the Board of Charities and Corrections are stated to be "For the Guidance of Personnel and Governing Inmates Conduct" (Emphasis added). In my opinion these rules are for the guidance only of the personnel and a violation thereof is not negligence as a matter of law, but, at most, evidence of negligence. Further, Section V being headed "Jail Security" has for its purpose denying the prisoner weapons, tools or articles which he might use to escape and not for the purpose of protecting other prisoners. The in*10struction given by the trial court was more favorable to plaintiff than that to which he was entitled, and therefore he cannot complain. Otherwise I concur in the opinion and the result reached.