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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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