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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
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.
Filed under:
Classification,
Out of State Transfers,
Staff-Prisoner Assault.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
The settlement came in the case of prisoner Lisa Lambert, for events that occurred in 1993 through 1994. ...
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