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$200,000 Settlement in Wyoming Prisoner’s Suicide Death
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2008, page 44
$200,000 Settlement in Wyoming Prisoner’s Suicide Death
To settle the claim that a prisoner who committed suicide was not properly treated, Wyoming’s Cambell County Detention Center (CCDC) has paid the prisoner’s estate $200,000. Nick Ashby, 38, was booked into CCDC on July 21, 2003, for violating a court order to ...
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