Richard A. Mattox, Appellant v. State of Alaska, Department of Corrections, Appellee

Summary

The Alaska Supreme Court held that the Department of Corrections owes a negligence‑based duty to protect inmates from reasonably foreseeable assaults by other inmates and that the inmate presented a genuine issue of fact on foreseeability, so the superior court’s grant of summary judgment was improper. The judgment was reversed and the case remanded for further proceedings.