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Oklahoma Jailhouse Informants Settle Failure to Protect Suit for $80,000
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2002, page 27
Federal prisoners Curtis Sherfield and Hugh Grayson, who were being held at the Oklahoma County jail on federal drug charges, were given a total of $80,000 in December 2001 to settle their lawsuit against the county after they were beaten when other prisoners discovered the two were snitches.
Filed under:
Injury -- Misc.,
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General),
Premises Liability,
Informants (Failure to Protect).
Location:
Oklahoma.
The suit, …
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