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$1,750 Settlement in D.C. Prisoner’s Assault Resulting in Brain Damage Suit

Loaded on March 15, 2011

Filed under: Medical, Brain Injury, Failure to Protect (General). Location: District of Columbia.

The District of Columbia (D.C.) paid $1,750 to settle the negligence suit filed by prisoner David Ambrose for injuries sustained in an assault by two other prisoners.

While in front of the guard’s control bubble near the gymnasium of the D.C. Jail on October 18, 1993, Ambrose was assaulted by ...

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