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Washington Prisoner’s Rape Claim Results in $60,000 Settlement
Loaded on May 15, 2010
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2010, page 41
The State of Washington paid $60,000 to settle a claim that involved a prisoner at the Washington State Reformatory being “savagely sexually assaulted” by another prisoner.
Filed under:
Sexual Assault,
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Failure to Protect (General).
Location:
Washington.
In the late evening of June 9 or the early morning hours of June 10, 2005, prisoner Jason M. Grey was raped by prisoner ...
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