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Georgia Jail Pays $937,500 in Wrongful Death Settlement
Loaded on May 6, 2015
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2015, page 43
Rodney Earl Graham, 30, died while in the custody of Georgia’s Douglas County jail on November 4, 2009. Arrested on a probation violation for possession of marijuana, he became seriously ill after about a week at the lock-up. Graham requested medical care but instead was placed in a detox …
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