A federal appeals court has ruled that Michigan prison officials cannot be held constitutionally responsible for the mishandling of a scabies outbreak at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility. In a 2–1 decision on March 26, the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s ruling and held that senior prison officials are protected by qualified immunity from federal constitutional claims related to their failure to identify and properly treat the outbreak that afflicted women with persistent itching, rashes, and infections from 2016 to 2019