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$2.1 Million Award in Excessive Force Death of California Prisoner
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2010
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2010, page 43
In April, 2009, a federal jury awarded $2.1 million in a lawsuit filed against guards at California’s Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility for their negligence and excessive use of force that caused a prisoner’s death.
Filed under:
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
State Law Claims,
Wrongful Death,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
California.
The prisoner, John Fitzgerald Young, suffered from chronic mental illness that required psychiatric medication. On ...
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