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Texas Jury Awards BOP Prisoner $4 Million for Rape by Guard
Loaded on July 15, 2004
by Alex Coolman
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2004, page 18
DNA evidence and a powerful will to fight helped former federal Texas prisoner Marilyn Shirley win a sexual assault conAviction and a $4 million civil decision against a guard who raped her while she was being held in the Carswell federal prison camp in Fort Worth, Texas.
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Guard Misconduct,
DNA Testing/Samples,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution.
Location:
Texas.
The June 2, ...
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