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 months later.

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The duty of care owed by the jail to individuals decreases with both the physical distance from the jail and the time elapsed since the escape. The local farmer assaulted minutes later is more directly impacted and thus the jail owes a higher duty of care to them compared to the gas station owner operating far away and affected much later.

An Inmate Is Able to Escape from a Local Prison