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$250,000 Awarded To Virginia Guard After Stabbing By Prisoner Upheld

Loaded on July 15, 2008

Filed under: Injury -- Misc., Guard Brutality/Beatings, Stun Guns/Tasers, Costs, Discovery, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Assaults on Staff. Location: Virginia.

Virginia State pro se prisoner Lament Douglas appealed a prison guard's counterclaim grant and the dismissal of the denial of medical care allegations in a federal action resulting from a 1999 mutually injurious altercation. The judgment was affirmed.

Douglas stabbed Supermax guard Jack McCarty, alleging prior assault by the guard, …

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