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$150,000 Settles Colorado Jail Prisoner’s Sexual Assault Suit

Loaded on Jan. 8, 2018 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News January, 2018, page 30
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault. Location: Colorado.

by Matt Clarke

In January 2017, Otero County, Colorado paid $150,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a jail prisoner who was sexually assaulted by a former guard.

Jennifer Hernandez, a mother of two, was booked into the Otero County Jail as a pretrial detainee.

“It’s a little backwater jail ...

 

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