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$12,000 Awarded in NY Slip and Fall
Loaded on July 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2000, page 24
On July 15, 1999, the New York court of claims awarded pro se New York state prisoner Hamilton Thompson 112,000 for past pain and suffering. In 1996, while imprisoned at the Oneida Correctional Facility, Thompson slipped and fell in a puddle of water in his cell. Prior to falling in ...
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