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South Carolina Prisoner Awarded $4,000 For Fall, Broken Ankle
Loaded on June 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2007, page 30
On August 21, 2006, a South Carolina jury awarded $4,000 to a man who fell and broke his ankle while imprisoned in the Charleston County Detention Center.Plaintiff Clark Green, 40, claimed that while imprisoned in the two-story jail he was forced to walk down the stairs for recreation with ...
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