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Nevada Juvenile Road Accident Kills Six, Settles for $3.5 Million
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2002, page 24
Six Nevada teenagers in a juvenile offender program working to pay off fees and restitution in lieu of doing time in a detention center were struck and killed in March 2000 as they picked up trash on a freeway median near Las Vegas. The families of those teens have agreed ...
Filed under:
Prison Labor,
Workplace Injury,
Municipal Liability,
Wrongful Death,
Accidents.
Location:
Nevada.
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