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$2,000 Settlement For Federal Prisoner's Lost Property And Legal Work

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2009

Filed under: Guard Brutality/Beatings, Legal Materials, Damages, Settlements, Money/Property, Prisoner Property, Federal Tort Claims Act. Location: Wisconsin.

Wisconsin federal prisoner Joseph Davis brought a combined 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and federal tort action in 1997 after guards lost his property and legal documents, and assaulted him during a transfer to another prison. He claimed that he needed the legal documents for the time sensitive filing of a ...

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