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Jail Prisoner’s Death Results in $1 Million Judgment against Texas County
Loaded on Sept. 2, 2016
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2016, page 21
Filed under:
Jail Misconduct,
Injury -- Misc.,
Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal,
Failure to Treat,
Food,
Jail Specific,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
Texas.
On October 22, 2015, a federal jury awarded $1 million to the survivors and estate of a prisoner who died in a Texas jail, finding jail employees were deliberately indifferent to his medical needs.
Terry Lynn Borum, 53, was booked into the Swisher County jail on January 28, 2013. He ...
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