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D.C. Jail Prisoner Stabbed Multiple Times Receives $11,000 Settlement

Loaded on May 15, 2011

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Failure to Protect (General). Location: District of Columbia.

On March 1, 2007, the District of Columbia agreed to pay $11,000 to a prisoner who was stabbed multiple times at the D.C. Jail.

Melvin Givens was stabbed repeatedly in the back, head and stomach by another prisoner after exiting his cell. Givens was stabbed with a homemade knife, commonly ...

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