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$750,000 Settlement in Suit Over Prisoner Beaten and Raped for Three Days
Loaded on Feb. 4, 2020
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2020, page 36
Filed under:
Sexual Assault,
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Settlements.
Location:
United States of America.
by Matt Clarke
On May 17, 2019, the federal government settled a lawsuit brought by a man formerly incarcerated by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), who had been placed in a segregation cell with another prisoner who previously threatened him, even though they were supposed to be kept apart.
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