$550,000 Settlement in Georgia Prisoner’s Starvation Death

Loaded on Sept. 1, 2020 by David Reutter published in Verdict1 September, 2020, page 15

Filed under: Settlements, Wrongful Death, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement. Location: Georgia.

by David M. Reutter

A $550,000 settlement was reached in a civil rights lawsuit alleging 19-year-old Jimmy Lucero laid in a catatonic state at Augusta State Medical Prison (ASMP) as he starved to death with little to no medical care in 2015.

Lucero entered the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDOC) ...

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