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$450,000 to Prisoner's Estate for Beating Death
Loaded on Feb. 22, 2018
by Mark Wilson
by Mark Wilson
Oregon prison officials have paid $450,000 to settle state and federal claims that systemic gang violence resulted in a prisoner being murdered in his cell. Officials had previously admitted that staff negligence was a “substantial factor” in the murder.
In July 2010, Oregon prisoner …
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