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Corizon Bankruptcy Threatens $6.4 Million Award to Family of Michigan Prisoner Whose Five-Day Jail Term Turned Into Death Sentence
Loaded on June 1, 2023
by Jacob Barrett
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2023, page 20
Filed under:
Corizon,
Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal,
Settlements,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
Location:
Michigan.
by Jacob Barrett
On December 5, 2022, a jury in federal court for the Western District of Michigan awarded $6.4 million to the estate of Wade Jones, 40, who was left to die from untreated alcohol withdrawal in his cell at Michigan’s Kent County Correctional Facility (KCCF) by …
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