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CCA Prisoner Awarded $3,250 in Excessive Force Lawsuit

Loaded on May 15, 2011 published in Prison Legal News May, 2011, page 35

Filed under: Private Prisons, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Guard Brutality/Beatings. Location: Louisiana.

A Louisiana U.S. District Court awarded $3,250 to a prisoner in a civil rights action that involved excessive use of force by a guard. The lawsuit was filed by Winn Correctional Center prisoner Derrick Levon Carter due to events that occurred on April 14, 2006. This case is unusual in ...

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