Family of Prisoner Strangled in Oklahoma GEO Private Prison Awarded $6.5 Million
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2012
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News January, 2012, page 16
by Matt Clarke
Filed under:
GEO Group/Wackenhut,
Wrongful Death,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death).
Location:
Oklahoma.
In June 2011, the family members of an Oklahoma state prisoner who was murdered by his cellmate at a privately-operated GEO Group prison in Lawton, Oklahoma received a $6.5 million jury award.
On January 30, 2005, Lawton Correctional Facility prisoner Ronald L. Sites, 48, was strangled ...
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