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$195,000 Paid to Family of Slain Florida Prison Guard
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2008
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2008, page 21
by David M. Reutter
Filed under:
Prison/Jail Murders,
Failure to Protect (General),
Death Penalty/Death Row,
Death Penalty,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death),
Assaults on Staff.
Location:
Florida.
The Florida Department of Corrections (FDOC) has agreed to pay $195,000 to the family of murdered prison guard Darla Kay Lathrem, 38. PLN previously reported the incident. [See: PLN, April 2006, p.42].
Lathrem was killed during a failed escape on June 11, 2003. She had been ...
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