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$451,000 Federal Jury Award for Illinois Prisoner Beaten by Jail Guard
Loaded on Dec. 2, 2015
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2015, page 34
Filed under:
Guard Brutality/Beatings.
Location:
Illinois.
$451,000 Federal Jury Award for Illinois Prisoner Beaten by Jail Guard
by Matt Clarke
In March 2014, an Illinois federal jury awarded $451,000 to a pretrial detainee at the Cook County Jail who was severely beaten by a guard a dozen years earlier.
James Degorski, 41, filed a civil rights ...
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