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SC Prisoners Settle Rape Suits
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2000, page 16
On October 16, 1999, an unidentified former woman prisoner settled a lawsuit for $115,000. The woman claimed that in 1995 while she was imprisoned at the Women's Correctional Center in Broad River, South Carolina, prison guard Anthony Green raped her and South Carolina prison officials then denied her rape crisis …
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Damages,
Settlements,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
South Carolina.
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