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$100,000 for Brain Damaged Prisoner
Loaded on March 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2002, page 21
$100,000 for brain damaged prisonerIn the Winter of 1966, Lawrence Jordan was a prisoner at the Washington State Reformatory (WSR) in Monroe, Washington. On March 7 of that year, Mr. Jordan submitted to eye muscle surgery by the WSR ophthalmologist. He was placed under general anesthesia and subsequently went ...
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