$32,000 Settlement in Excessive Force Case Involving Mentally Ill Alabama Prisoner

Loaded on Jan. 8, 2019 published in Verdict1 January, 2019, page 16

Filed under: Disabled Prisoners, Excessive Force, Settlements. Location: Alabama.

A settlement was reached in a civil rights action alleging guards at Alabama’s Madison County Jail (MCJ) used excessive force on a mentally ill prisoner during a cell extraction.

Haraesheo Rice, 31, was well known to MCJ staff, who were aware he suffered from mental health problems that included schizophrenia ...

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