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$10,000 Settlement for Failure to Protect DC Prisoner and Deliberate Indifference to His Medical Needs

Loaded on March 15, 2011

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Prison Health Services, Muscular, Failure to Protect (General). Location: District of Columbia.

The District of Columbia (DC) paid $10,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by prisoner Aloyouis Chelsey for injuries sustained at DC’s Correctional Treatment Facility (CTF), which is operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA).

Chelsey advised a guard on May 2, 2001, that he had been verbally and physically threatened ...

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