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Texas Jail Pays $200,000 to Settle Rape/Suicide Suit
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2007, page 31
Val Verde County, Texas and its contract Del Rio jail operator, GEO Group, Inc., agreed in March 2007 to pay $200,000 to the surviving family of a 23-year-old woman prisoner who, upon becoming depressed after being raped in the jail, hung herself with her bed sheet in July 2004.
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