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$3.15 Million for Illinois Prisoner Raped by Guard and Then Denied “Boot Camp”
Loaded on June 1, 2025
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2025, page 60
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Retaliation for Litigating,
Prison Rape Elimination Act.
Location:
Illinois.
On March 26, 2024, the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) signed an agreement to pay $3,150,000 to a former state prisoner to settle her claims that she was raped by a guard and then denied entry to a diversion program based on medications she was prescribed because of the trauma ...
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