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CO: CO: Woman Prisoner Awarded $1.35 Million After Repeated Sexual Assaults by Guard

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

National Briefing | Rockies Colorado: Inmate Awarded $1.35. Million By DAN FROSCH Published: June 11, 2009 NY Times A female inmate who was raped by a sergeant at the Denver Women?s Correctional Facility was awarded more than $1.35 million by a federal judge on Wednesday in a civil lawsuit she had brought. The judge, David M. Ebel of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, wrote that he set the damages high to try to discourage other guards from sexually assaulting inmates in Colorado prisons. The inmate in the case said she had been repeatedly sexually assaulted by the corrections sergeant, LeShawn Terrell, beginning in 2006, but had been too terrified to report the assaults. The ruling was sharply critical of the Denver District Attorney?s Office for allowing Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 12, 2009 (boomark / email).