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BOP Pays $40,000 to Prisoner Sexually Assaulted at Florida Lockup by Guard, Who Must Pay Her $1 Million
Loaded on March 1, 2024
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2024, page 40
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Prison Rape Elimination Act.
Location:
Florida.
by David M. Reutter
Back in June 2022, the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) agreed to pay $40,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a prisoner repeatedly subjected to sexually assault by a guard at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Mariana, Florida. But the settlement with “Jane Doe” specifically ...
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