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Former Prisoner Receives $50,000 Settlement for Beating by Ohio Jail Guard
Loaded on May 6, 2015
by Derek Gilna
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2015, page 53
Filed under:
Guard Brutality/Beatings.
Location:
Ohio.
Former Prisoner Receives $50,000 Settlement for Beating by Ohio Jail Guard
by Derek Gilna
Jordan Sand, 18, previously incarcerated at the Lorain County jail in Elyria, Ohio as a juvenile offender, received a $50,000 settlement from the county after he was brutally assaulted in 2012 by former guard Marlon Taylor. ...
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