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$350,000 Awarded in Ohio Prisoner Death

Loaded on July 15, 1998 published in Prison Legal News July, 1998, page 17
Filed under: Respiratory, Wrongful Death, Medical Neglect/Malpractice. Location: Ohio.
$350,000 Awarded In Ohio Prisoner Death

Sybil Norris, 29, was doing a six-month stretch for shoplifting at the Ohio Reformatory for Women when she died, needlessly, of an asthma attack.

Two years later, in December 1997, the Ohio Court of Claims awarded $350,000 ($150,000 for pain and suffering and $200,000 ...

 

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