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California Pays $2.5 Million After Girl Attempts Suicide at Juvenile Facility
Loaded on July 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2012, page 42
California officials have agreed to pay $2.5 million to the family of a teenage girl who was left severely brain damaged after trying to hang herself in the mental health unit of the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility (VYCF). According to the family’s lawsuit, VYCF guards and supervisors failed to follow ...
Filed under:
Brain Injury,
Mental Health,
Suicides,
Failure to Protect (Juveniles).
Location:
California.
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