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Georgia Teen’s Suicide from Neglect Results in $1.7 Million Settlement
Loaded on Oct. 10, 2017
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2017, page 51
A settlement was reached last year in a lawsuit brought by the estate of a teenager who hanged himself at a Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) facility. The complaint described a chilling account of neglect of a child known to be a suicide risk.
The suit was brought by ...
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