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$657,670 Settlement in Ohio Juvenile Facility Class-action Suit
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2012, page 22
Less than a year after the filing of a federal civil rights class-action, a settlement was reached in the lawsuit, which challenged conditions of confinement at the Washington County Juvenile Center (WCJC) in Marietta, Ohio. In October 2011, the parties to the suit submitted a consent decree for approval by ...
Filed under:
Totality of Conditions,
Exercise,
Restraints,
Juveniles,
Juvenile Prisons.
Location:
Ohio.
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