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$2 Million Settlement in Mailman’s Death at New York City Jail
Loaded on March 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2013, page 46
The City of New York has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that deliberate indifference resulted in the death of a pretrial detainee.The settlement came in a federal civil rights action filed by the estate of Oswald Livermore. Livermore, 51, was booked into the Manhattan …
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