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El Paso County jail detainee can’t sue over COVID-19 protocols, 10th Circuit says
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A man incarcerated at the El Paso County jail was barred from suing over the facility’s allegedly lax COVID-19 protocols because he failed to specifically follow the procedure for reporting a problem, the federal appeals court based in Denver ruled on Tuesday. Under the federal Prison Litigation Reform Act, people who are incarcerated must “exhaust”…