Texas Tech and TDCJ Settle Prisoner Suicide Suit for $85,000
Loaded on April 15, 2010
published in Prison Legal News April, 2010, page 31
On April 2, 2009, Texas Tech University Health Science Center (TTUHSC) and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) settled for $85,000 a lawsuit involving a prisoner who committed suicide at the Clements Unit.Theodore Schmerber was a Texas state prisoner when he committed suicide by tearing a damaged ...
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