Texas Settles with Hanged Prisoner's Family

Loaded on Oct. 15, 1999 published in Verdict1 October, 1999, page 19

Filed under: Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Damages, Settlements, Supervisory Liability, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Suicides, Protective Custody. Location: Texas.

The state of Texas agreed in June 1999 to pay $215,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of Rodney Hulin, a 17-year-old Texas state prisoner who was found hanging in his cell in 1996.

About 30 days after arriving at the Clements unit in Brazoria, Texas, Hulin told ...

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