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Washington Jail Prisoner Settles Retaliation Claim for $10,000
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2012, page 16
Washington State’s Pierce County has agreed to pay $10,000 to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed a prisoner was subjected to retaliation in the form of solitary confinement for exercising his First Amendment right of access to the courts.
Filed under:
Retaliation,
Retaliation for Litigating,
Retaliatory Searches,
Retaliatory Segregation,
Dental Care,
Retaliatory Discipline,
Lighting,
Legal Property,
Legal Materials.
Location:
Washington.
Neil Grenning filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for events ...
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