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$725,000 Award in Negligent Medical Care Suit Involving Poisoned New York Prisoner
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2011
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2011, page 7
A New York Court of Claims has awarded $725,000 to the estate of a prisoner who died due to medical neglect after being poisoned at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility.Rodney Williams, 20, was three weeks from being released after serving a sentence for car theft when he died on ...
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