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$6,000 Settlement in D.C. Youth Prisoner’s Stabbing

Loaded on March 15, 2011

Filed under: Classification, Staffing, Settlements, Failure to Protect (Juveniles), Juvenile Prisons. Location: District of Columbia.

The District of Columbia (D.C.) paid $6,000 to settle the negligence suit of prisoner Jeremiah Lester for injuries incurred from being stabbed by two other prisoners.

While at D.C.’s Youth Center One in Lorton, Virginia on May 16, 1999, Lester was assaulted and stabbed with metal contraband knives by two ...

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