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Alabama Prisoner Awarded $90,000 For Work-Related Eye Injury
Loaded on July 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2005, page 13
by Michael RigbyOn February 5, 2004, the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) agreed to pay $90,000 to a prisoner who was refused safety glasses and later suffered an eye injury while working at a prison recycling center.
Plaintiff Brian Dodd, a Gulf War veteran serving a short sentence for …
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