Washington Pays $3 Million to Murdered Prisoner’s Family After Overriding Single-Cell Recommendation for Violent Cellmate

Loaded on June 1, 2022 by Mark Wilson published in Verdict1 June, 2022, page 34

Filed under: Failure to Protect (General), Settlements, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death). Location: Washington.

by Mark Wilson

On November 19, 2021, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) agreed to pay $3 million to a murdered prisoner’s family for overriding recommendations to house his violent cellmate in a cell by himself. Together with another $3.25 million settlement in July 2021 [See: PLN, June 2022, ...

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