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Florida Prison Nurses Net $1 Million for Sexual Harassment by Prisoners
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2007, page 26
A Florida federal jury has awarded twelve nurses employed by the Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) nearly $1 million for sexual harassment by prisoners in confinement cells.The complaint in that lawsuit was filed by twenty-eight FDOC employees from four different prisons. The nurses were all females who provided care ...
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