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North Carolina Jail Prisoner Housed with TB Infected Cellmate Receives $2,250 Settlement
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2011
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2011, page 41
The defendants in a lawsuit related to a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak at North Carolina’s Brunswick County jail have agreed to settle the case for $2,250.The suit was filed in June 2010 by former prisoner Frank Baldwin, who claimed that he spent months in a cellblock with detainee Omar Morales, ...
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