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$7,025 Award in Slip and Fall From Ohio Prison Bunk
Loaded on May 15, 2009
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2009, page 47
$7,025 Award in Slip and Fall From Ohio Prison Bunk
The Ohio Court of Claims has awarded a former Ohio prisoner $7,025 for injuries related to a slip and fall from a prison bunk.
Stacy Rose slipped and fell while climbing down from his bunk at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution. ...
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