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New York Prisoner Awarded $5,250 for Prison Welding Shop Injury
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2005, page 25
On July 27, 2004, the Court of Claims in Rochester, New York, awarded Noel Atkinson, a New York state prisoner, $5,250 for past pain and suffering due to an injury he received while working in a welding shop at the Cape Vincent Correctional Facility. During the bench trial, Judge Phillip ...
Filed under:
Prison Industries,
Workplace Injury,
Skeletal Injury,
Civil Procedure,
Damages.
Location:
New York.
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