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Eighth Circuit Upholds $2,501 Retaliation Judgment Against Arkansas Prison Guard
Loaded on July 15, 2010
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2010, page 22
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has affirmed a $2,501 award to an Arkansas state prisoner who was subjected to retaliation by an Arkansas Department of Correction (ADC) guard.
Filed under:
Retaliation for Filing Grievances,
Disciplinary Hearings,
Retaliatory Discipline.
Location:
Arkansas.
On June 23, 2007, ADC prisoner Walter Haynes filed a grievance against Sgt. Patrick L. Stephenson, who had ...
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