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Feds Decline to Pursue Charges in Florida Boot Camp Death
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2010
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2010, page 28
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on April 16, 2010 that it will not pursue civil rights violations or other charges against seven Florida boot camp guards and a nurse in connection with the death of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson.
Filed under:
Criminal Prosecution,
Boot Camps,
Excessive Force,
Wrongful Death,
Failure to Protect (Juveniles),
Juvenile Prisons.
Location:
Florida.
The events leading to Martin’s January 6, 2006 death were ...
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