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Impregnated Arkansas Prisoner Wins Suit
Loaded on April 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1997, page 12
An Arkansas state prisoner was awarded $120,000 after a jury heard her claim that she was impregnated by one guard and sexually harassed by another. The federal court jury found that Laura Berry's constitutional rights were violated by former guard Randall Reed and former Sgt. Jay Oswalt at the Tucker ...
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Sexual Harassment,
Staff-Prisoner Harassment,
Abortion,
OB/GYN.
Location:
Arkansas.
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