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$800,000 Settlement in AZ Jail Restraint Suit
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2000, page 20
In August, 1999, the Maricopa County board of supervisors, approved an $800,000 settlement for a pretrial detainee subjected to excessive force in the Maricopa County (Phoenix) Jail in Arizona. Richard Post, a wheelchair bound paraplegic was arrested and taken to the county jail.
Filed under:
Disabled Prisoners,
Medical,
Skeletal Injury,
Urinary,
Restraints,
Settlements,
Discovery.
Location:
Arizona.
Post claimed he was denied a catheter …
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