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$35,00 Settlement in Sexual Assault of Pennsylvania Female Prisoner by Guard

Loaded on July 15, 2008 published in Prison Legal News July, 2008, page 41
Filed under: Classification, Out of State Transfers, Staff-Prisoner Assault. Location: Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) has settled a female prisoner’s federal lawsuit that claimed she was sexually assaulted by two male guards and videotaped naked by a female guard for $35,000.

The settlement came in the case of prisoner Lisa Lambert, for events that occurred in 1993 through 1994. ...

 

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