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California Jury Awards $1 Million in Jail Rape
Loaded on June 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2002, page 21
On November 20, 2001, a Los Angeles county jury returned a $1 million verdict to 39 year-old Jay Reynolds, a former jail detainee who was raped by his cellmates after a judge ordered his release from jail. Reynolds was arrested in March 1999, when a traffic stop by police showed ...
Filed under:
Sexual Assault,
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Wrongful Imprisonment.
Location:
California.
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