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Los Angeles Jail Pays $161,000 Settlement for Juvenile Injured Due to Negligent Supervision
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2012, page 46
The County of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $161,000 to settle a civil rights action that claimed a juvenile offender was seriously injured while held at the Los Angeles County Probation Department’s Central Juvenile Hall (CJH), due to improper supervision.The plaintiff, 17-year-old Alyssia Frenzel, was detained on an ...
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