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BOP Settles Prisoner Beating/Restraint Lawsuit for $99,000
Loaded on March 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2002, page 7
BOP Settles Prisoner Beating/Restraint Lawsuit For $99,000
Filed under:
Injury -- Misc.,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Restraints.
Location:
Georgia.
In the summer of 1997, Lealon Muldrow was incarcerated in the Special Housing Unit (SHU) of the United States Penitentiary (USP) at Atlanta .On July 1 of that year, Muldrow was threatened with being chained down because the other prisoner in his cell ...
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