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$350,000 Settlement in Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Suicide
Loaded on Nov. 30, 2015
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2015, page 29
Filed under:
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death),
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Suicides.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
$350,000 Settlement in Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Suicide
by David Reutter
A $350,000 settlement was reportedly reached in the 2007 suicide of a prisoner at Pennsylvania’s Blair County Prison (BCP). The settlement included the prisoner’s personal physician as well as county defendants.
Following an injury to his right leg in 2002, Nathan ...
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