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$550,000 Settlement for Detainee Rendered Quadriplegic by Guard’s Excessive Force
Loaded on Dec. 7, 2018
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2018, page 62
The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee agreed to pay $550,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging a guard at the Davidson County Male Correctional Development Center (CDC) used excessive force on a pretrial detainee, leaving him a quadriplegic.
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