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$100,000 Damages Award in Jail Slip-and-Fall Upheld
Loaded on Nov. 7, 2017
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2017, page 48
Filed under:
Workplace Injury,
Injury -- Misc.,
Guards/Staff,
Failure to Protect (Staff).
Location:
Texas.
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- Prisoners in Flint, Michigan Lied to About Water Crisis; Lawsuit Settles, by David Reutter
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