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$15,000 Awarded to Ohio Prisoner Beaten by Guards
Loaded on June 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2000, page 11
On July 2, 1999, a federal jury in Columbus, Ohio, awarded Ohio prisoner James Morrison 115,000 in damages. Morrison filed suit claiming he was taken to a secluded area of a prison (unnamed in reports), where he was beaten and kicked by guards Karl Davis, Jeffrey Felts and Charles Adams. …
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