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$850,000 Verdict in Nebraska Prisoner’s Suicide
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2010
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2010, page 48
A Nebraska federal jury has awarded $850,000 to the estate of a prisoner who hanged himself with a bed sheet in his cell at the Dodge County Correctional Facility (DCC). The estate’s attorney, Maren L. Chaloupka, hailed the verdict as a wake-up call for jail officials. After Troy Sampson was ...
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