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Pennsylvania Jail Prisoner Assaulted With Hot Water Awarded $50,000
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2007, page 36
On December 15, 2006, a federal court awarded $50,000 to a prisoner who was burned with hot water by another prisoner while in a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, jail.
Peter Muse claimed that on April 23, 2004, while he slept, another prisoner assaulted him with boiling water that the other prisoner heated …
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