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Missouri County Settles Suit Over Jail Prisoner’s Suicide for $260,000
Loaded on Dec. 8, 2016
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2016, page 13
Last year, Lincoln County, Missouri agreed to pay $260,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a jail prisoner who committed suicide in 2011.
On August 21, 2011, police from the City of Troy responded to a domestic disturbance call at the home of Terry L. Marler, Jr. ...
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