An inmate is able to escape from a local prison because a security guard left a gate open.The jail owes the same duty of care to a local farmer who is assaulted by the inmate minutes later as it does to a gas station owner who operates 750 kilometres away and is robbed three days later.

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The jail's duty of care is more directly related to foreseeable harm to nearby individuals, like the local farmer, than to those far away, like the gas station owner.

An Inmate Is Able to Escape from a Local Prison