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Massachusetts Jury Awards $175,000 to Beaten Ex-Prisoner
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2003, page 7
On August 28, 2002, a Worcester (MA) Superior Court jury awarded $175,000 to a former Massachusetts state prisoner who sued the Department of Correction (DOC). The jury also found that the DOC negligently hired and supervised a guard with a known propensity for violence and denied Gendron medical treatment after ...
Filed under:
Injury -- Misc.,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Civil Procedure,
Default Judgments,
Supervisory Liability.
Location:
Massachusetts.
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