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Jury Awards Indiana Prison Law Library Clerk $1,150 for Retaliation
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2008, page 26
Filed under:
Retaliation for Filing Grievances,
Court Access,
Law Library Access/Adequacy,
New Trial Motions.
Location:
Indiana.
Jury Awards Indiana Prison Law Library Clerk $1,150 for Retaliation
On April 3, 2008, a federal jury awarded $1,150 to a prison law library clerk in a lawsuit claiming retaliation by a prison librarian.
Charles Watkins, a law clerk at the Indiana Department of Corrections’ Miami Correctional Facility, sued librarian ...
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