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$1.4 Million Settlement in Three-Day Long Sexual Assaults of Alaska Prisoners
Loaded on June 15, 2009
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2009, page 16
Filed under:
Sexual Assault,
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Failure to Protect (General).
Location:
Alaska.
$1.4 Million Settlement in Three-Day Long Sexual Assaults of Alaska Prisoners
by David M. Reutter
Two male Alaska prisoners who were sexually assaulted by other prisoners have reached a $1.4 million settlement in a lawsuit filed against prison officials. The incident occurred at the Yukon Kuskokwin Correctional Center in September ...
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