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$4,000 Settlement for Arkansas Prisoner Pepper Sprayed by Guards
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2011
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2011, page 21
The Arkansas Department of Correction (ADOC) has paid $4,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a prisoner who was pepper sprayed three times by guards.While confined at the Varner Supermax Unit in 2005, Eric Winston was repeatedly pepper sprayed. The guards claimed that Winston refused to vacate his cell. ...
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