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Los Angeles County Pays $60,900 To Settle Jail Detainee Rape Claim
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2006, page 37
Los Angeles County Pays $60,900 To Settle Jail Detainee Rape Claim
Los Angeles (L.A.) County, California, paid $60,900 to a female detainee who was raped in her Century Regional Detention Facility (CRDF) cell by a male prisoner who was inadvertently admitted by a County Sheriff's deputy.
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