Prisoner Enters Federal System Able to See, Leaves Nearly Blind; $2.6 Million Settlement

Loaded on June 3, 2019 by Edward Lyon published in Verdict1 June, 2019, page 24

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Blind Prisoners, Medical, ENT, Failure to Treat, Settlements. Location: United States of America.

by Ed Lyon

Vannara Nhar, 22, was sentenced to a term in federal prison for selling firearms to an undercover cop. He entered the Bureau of Prisons in October 2011 with near-perfect vision and was assigned to FCC Butner in North Carolina. When he left in 2013, his eyesight ...

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