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$150,000 Settlement in Pennsylvania Jail Prisoner’s Suicide
Loaded on July 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2008, page 40
Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County Correctional Facility (LCCF) has agreed to pay the family of a prisoner who committed suicide $150,000. The family contended LCCF was deliberatively indifferent to the risk that prisoner Luke Blumer, 19, posed to himself.Blumer was known to be suicidal, showing that tendency by attempting to hang ...
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