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$5.75 Million Payout in Death of Rikers' Prisoner Denied Medical
Loaded on Jan. 3, 2018
by Lonnie Burton
Filed under:
Corizon,
Diabetes,
Failure to Treat,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
New York.
by Lonnie Burton
In a settlement of a lawsuit previously mentioned in Prison Legal News, New York City agreed on September 27, 2016, to pay $5.75 million to the mother of a mentally ill Rikers Island prisoner who died on his cell floor in September 2013, naked and covered ...
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