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$85,000 Settlement in South Carolina Prison Murder Suit
Loaded on April 15, 2011
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2011, page 49
The South Carolina Department of Corrections agreed to pay $85,000 to settle a wrongful death case and survival action in the murder of a prisoner by his cellmate.
Filed under:
Crime/Demographics,
Prison/Jail Murders,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death).
Location:
South Carolina.
Perry Correctional Institution prisoner Charles D. Martin was serving a five-year non-violent sentence. He was assigned on September 12, 2005 to a …
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