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Family of BOP Prisoner Awarded $1.1 Million in Wrongful Death Suit
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2001
by Ronald Young
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2001, page 28
A federal judge in Oklahoma City ruled in May 2001 that the government was negligent in the death of federal prisoner Kenneth Michael Trentadue and ordered the family to be paid $1.1 million for emotional distress. However, U.S. District Judge Tim Leonard rejected arguments that Trentadue was murdered and the ...
Filed under:
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Suicides.
Location:
Oklahoma.
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