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Damages Awarded in Beating Case
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1993, page 9
Rickke Greene is an Oklahoma state prisoner. While in a segregation unit Greene was scalded by another prisoner and received second degree burns. After not being treated at the prison infirmary he was returned to his cell, knocked to the floor, kicked and beaten by guards while still handcuffed. At ...
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