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Alabama Diabetic Prisoner Stomped On and Retaliated Against by Guard Awarded $20,000

Loaded on April 15, 2006 by John Dannenberg published in Prison Legal News April, 2006, page 29
Filed under: Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Diabetes, Retaliatory Discipline, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Damages. Location: Michigan.
by John E. Dannenberg

A diabetic Alabama prisoner lying on the floor of his cell due to suffering from his diabetes condition had his leg stomped on by a guard. When the prisoner grieved the abuse, another guard filed a phony disciplinary report against him. Proceeding pro se, the prisoner ...

 

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