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Canada's Supreme Court Reduces Award To Ex-Prisoner Sexually Assaulted By Guard

Loaded on Sept. 15, 2011

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Civil Procedure, Damages, Failure to Protect (Juveniles), Juvenile Prisons. Location: Canada.

On February 8, 2008, the Supreme Court of Canada issued a unanimous ruling reducing by almost half the award given an ex-prisoner who was a youthful victim of a sexual predator guard.

When he was 18, Dean Zastowny was a prisoner at Oakalla provincial prison in Burnaby, B.C. Roedrick MacDougall ...

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