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$550,000 Settlement in Georgia Prisoner’s Starvation Death
Loaded on Sept. 1, 2020
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2020, page 15
Filed under:
Settlements,
Wrongful Death,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
Georgia.
by David M. Reutter
A $550,000 settlement was reached in a civil rights lawsuit alleging 19-year-old Jimmy Lucero laid in a catatonic state at Augusta State Medical Prison (ASMP) as he starved to death with little to no medical care in 2015.
Lucero entered the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDOC) ...
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