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$1,500 Settlement in DC Prisoner’s Stabbing

Loaded on March 15, 2011

Filed under: Injury -- Misc., Conditions of Confinement, Failure to Protect (General). Location: District of Columbia.

The District of Columbia (DC) paid $1,500 to settle a negligence suit by prisoner Thomas Bartley for injuries sustained from being stabbed.

While in the Central Facility of the DC Department of Corrections on October 29, 1998, Bartley was stabbed by other prisoners in the shoulder, head, and neck. His ...

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