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Louisiana Sheriff Pays $1.35 Million Settlement in Death of Diabetic Prisoner
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2002, page 18
On January 6, 2002, Orleans Parish criminal sheriff Charles Foti agreed to pay $1.35 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a diabetic female prisoner who died at the parish prison in April 1999. JoAnn Johnson, who was diabetic, was arrested in April 4, 1999 on several ...
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