$150,000 Settlement in Suit over Atlanta Prisoner’s Fall-Related Death
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2007
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Prison Legal News
November, 2007, page 33
$150,000 Settlement in Suit over Atlanta Prisoner's Fall-Related DeathIn November 2006, the family of a man who suffered fatal injuries when he fell over a railing on an upper floor of an Atlanta jail settled with the city for $150,000.
Decedent Todd Jones, 37, was arrested ...
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