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$100,000 Awarded Under ICCPR in GA Jail Suit
Loaded on July 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2000, page 28
On February 24, 2000, a federal jury In Augusta, Georgia awarded 1100,000 in damages to a Danish citizen who was denied medical care and phone calls to his family in Denmark while he was awaiting trial in the Lincoln county jail in Georgia. The ruling is historic because it is ...
Filed under:
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Skeletal Injury,
Gastrointestinal,
Conditions of Confinement,
Exercise,
Jail Specific,
Damages,
International Law,
Telephone Access.
Location:
Georgia.
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