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New York Prisoner Awarded $195,000 for Hand, Knee Injury
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2005, page 33
On October 6, 2004, a court of claims in White Plains, New York, awarded $195,000 to a state prisoner who fell in the shower, injuring her hand, and knee.While imprisoned at the Taconic Correctional Facility, prisoner Juliann Gibson slipped and fell in a shower area on August 25, 2000, …
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