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$334,432 Award for Woman Raped In Georgia Jail

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Immunity/Liability, Municipal Liability. Location: Georgia.

In December 1992, a federal jury in Fulton County, Georgia, awarded
$334,432 to a woman who claimed she was raped by a guard while imprisoned
in the Forest Park city jail.

The plaintiff, Mary Isdell, claimed that while imprisoned in the Forest
Park jail guard Jack McBerry entered her cell ...

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