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Restrained Juvenile Prisoner Settles Injury Claim For $1,000

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Restraints, Wrongful Imprisonment, Juveniles. Location: Missouri.

After filing suit in August 1997, a juvenile female prisoner who suffered
emotional distress and facial bruising while being forcibly restrained by
personnel at the Marygrove Residential Treatment Facility settled her claim
for $1,000.

The girl had alleged in her suit, filed in St. Louis County, that the
defendants subjected …

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