Goar v. Civiletti

For purposes of this appeal, we accept as true the following allegations: Robert Goar, an informant, was a federal prisoner at the Ashland, Kentucky, prison in early 1980. The sentencing judge cautioned that Goar should not be sent to Tallahassee, where the principal defendant against whom Goar had testified was imprisoned. After discovering that two inmates at Ashland knew he was an informant, Goar accepted a transfer to Atlanta. The principal defendant was then housed at Atlanta. Goar was transferred back to Ashland. Though he requested administrative segregation, he was placed in the general population. On August 23, 1980, he was attacked by an inmate who knew of Goars informant activities. He suffered loss of blood from a head wound, a neck and jaw injury, for which he received inadequate medical treatment.