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$365,000 Settlement For Restrained, Untreated Michigan Boot Camp Prisoner
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2006, page 28
Filed under:
CMS,
Kidney,
Hepatitis,
Conditions of Confinement,
Boot Camps,
Restraints.
Location:
Michigan.
On December 22, 2005, the state of Michigan agreed to pay $365,000 to a boot camp prisoner who was strapped in a restraint chair for six hours and later suffered kidney and liver failure.
Craig Allen Cook II was arrested on June 14, 1999, and imprisoned in the Manistee …
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