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Texas Jury Awards $70,000 in Prison Stabbing
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2001
by Ronald Young
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2001, page 11
In May 2001, a federal court jury in Corpus Christi, Texas, held three Texas prison officials responsible for a 1997 attack during which a prisoner at the McConnell Unit was stabbed about a dozen times by another prisoner who had escaped from his locked cell. The jury assessed $70,000 in ...
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Gang Policies,
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General),
Supervisory Liability,
Premises Liability.
Location:
Texas.
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