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California Pays $3.5 Million to Settle Suit Over State Prisoner’s Murder
by Ashleigh N. Dye
On September 24, 2022, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) signed a settlement agreement providing $3.5 million to the heirs of Shaylene Graves, a state prisoner found hanged in her cell at the California Institute for Women (CIW) in Chino in June 2016.
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