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Virginia Settles Juvenile Death Suit for $1.2 Million

Loaded on Nov. 15, 2001 published in Prison Legal News November, 2001, page 10
Filed under: Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Restraints, State Law Claims, Mental Health. Location: Virginia.
In early April 2001, the Virginia Attorney General's office announced it had agreed to settle a wrongful death suit for $1.2 million. In the December 1999 issue of PLN we reported the death of Wallace Dandridge, 16, a developmentally disabled child at the Oak Ridge Juvenile Correctional Center in Richmond, ...

 

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