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$25 Million Jury Award to Baltimore City Prisoner For Guards Setting Up Retaliatory Gang Attack
Loaded on May 1, 2020
by Dale Chappell
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2020, page 59
Filed under:
Retaliation for Filing Grievances.
Location:
Maryland.
by Dale Chappell
A jury awarded a prisoner brutally beaten at the Baltimore City Detention Center $25 million, after guards allegedly worked in concert with a gang and arranged a beating as retaliation for complaints filed by a detainee awaiting trial.
The beating left Daquan Wallace in a coma for ...
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