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Pennsylvania DOC, Mental Health Contractor Settle Wrongful Death Suit for $27,500
Loaded on April 2, 2019
by Derek Gilna
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2019, page 29
Filed under:
Private Contractors,
Wrongful Death,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Mental Health,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
Pennsylvania.
by Derek Gilna
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) have agreed to pay $15,000 to the estate of a mentally ill prisoner who was killed after being attacked by another prisoner in February 2015.
The March 2018 settlement ended a suit brought ...
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