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$35,000 Awarded to Federal Prisoner in Kentucky Who Accused Guards of Using Excessive Force

Loaded on April 1, 2023 by Benjamin Tschirhart published in Prison Legal News April, 2023, page 44
Filed under: Failure to Treat, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements, Deliberate Indifference. Location: Kentucky.

by Benjamin Tschirhart

In July 2019, Jonathan Lee Smith was a prisoner at the U.S. Penitentiary near Kentucky’s Big Sandy River, when he got in a fight with another prisoner and guards responded. That led to allegations that two of them used excessive force against the prisoner: Lt. Terry Melvin …

 

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