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MI: 400 more women claim payouts fro $100 settlement for prison rapes and other assaults

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

400 more women claim payouts from $100 million in prison attacks Aug. 20, 2009 By DAVID EGGERT Detroit Free Press- Associated Press Another 400 current or former female inmates filed claims for part of a $100 million settlement for those who were raped, groped and peeked at by male corrections staff. All told, more than 900 women are seeking money from the state for alleged sexual misconduct that occurred inside prisons between March 1993 and July 2009. The development was disclosed today as Washtenaw County Circuit Judge Timothy Connors gave final approval to the class-action settlement, despite complaints from some ex-inmates who won at trial and will get less under the settlement. Connors gave preliminary approval of the agreement July 15...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 21, 2009 (boomark / email).