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$1.1 Million Awarded in Texas Restraint Chair Settlement

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2001 by Ronald Young published in Prison Legal News August, 2001, page 6
Filed under: Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Restraints, Municipal Liability. Location: Texas.
Nueces County, Texas, settled a $1.1 million lawsuit filed by the father of Andrew Sokolinski, a prisoner who died while strapped into a restraint chair at the Nueces County Jail. The county settled the lawsuit midway through an August 2000 trial, three years after Sokolinski died from the abuse of ...

 

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