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Michigan DOC Sex Abuse Suit Nets Nearly $4 Million
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2001
by Roger Smith
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2001, page 7
On February 7, 2000, Michigan DOC officials agreed to settle a lawsuit with 32 women prisoners for $3,787,000 in damages, costs, and attorney fees. The women sued in a Michigan federal district court after being sexually abused by DOC guards.
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Sexual Harassment,
Staff-Prisoner Harassment,
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Retaliation for Filing Grievances,
Staffing.
Location:
Michigan.
The named plaintiff, Linda Nunn, and 31 others were female …
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