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$50,000 for Excessive Force Claim by Maryland Prisoner Who Used to Be a Guard
Loaded on June 1, 2025
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2025, page 52
On March 19, 2025, an agreement was reached paying $50,000 to a Maryland prisoner—who is also a former Baltimore jailer—to settle his claim that he was subjected to excessive force by a guard at Western Correctional Institution (WCI). The agreement settled two suits that prisoner Jeffrey Corporal filed over the ...
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