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$500,000 Settlement in Connecticut Suicide
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2003, page 13
On April 14, 2003, the family of a prisoner who committed suicide in 1996 while in a Connecticut prison settled with the state for $500,000. William Dumais, 19, was imprisoned in the Corrigan Correctional Institution in Uncasville from December 1995 to February 1996 on a charge of fourth-degree larceny. On …
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