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$350,000 Settlement Reached in Negligence Suit over California Youth Prison Suicide

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2012

Filed under: Mental Health, Suicides, Failure to Protect (Juveniles), Juvenile Prisons. Location: California.

A $350,000 settlement was reached in a federal lawsuit related to the death of a prisoner at a youth prison in California. On August 31, 2005, Joseph Daniel Maldonado, a prisoner at N.A. Chanderjian Youth Correctional Facility, was found dead in his cell from an apparent suicide.

The suit alleged …

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