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$110,000 Settlement for North Carolina Prisoner Beaten By Guards
Loaded on May 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2007, page 36
A North Carolina prisoner who claimed jailers brutally beat him in the Mecklenburg County Jail (MCJ) will receive $110,000 in exchange for dropping his lawsuit against the county.Paul Midgett alleged that while imprisoned at MCJ on May 10, 2000, he was pummeled by guards Paul E. Gee, Doltheia F. ...
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