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Tennessee Prison Guard to Pay $50,000 for Stabbing
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1999, page 13
A former Tennessee Dept. of Correction guard has been ordered to pay $50,000 to a prisoner who was attacked and stabbed after he resisted the extortion demands of other prisoners.U.S. District Judge Todd Campbell ruled on August 7, 1999 that former guard Xavier Waters had been deliberately indifferent to …
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