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| Inmate Wins Suit, Money |
| By post-gazette.com |
| Published: 01/28/2011 |
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The jury in the federal civil case of a state inmate who was stabbed with a pen by a slovenly cellmate today awarded him $50,001, saying that a prison unit manager knowingly failed to remove him from danger. Robert E. Ivory, 43, originally of Allentown, was at the State Correctional Institution Fayette in 2008 when he got in a fight with his cellmate of two weeks, Russell Nance. Mr. Ivory, now of SCI Somerset, testified this week that he told three prison employees that Mr. Nance repeatedly threatened him, and he asked them to move him to another cell, but they did not. In a verdict entered late Wednesday, the eight-member jury found that he is entitled to $50,000 in punitive damages from unit manager Tammy Cesarino-Martin, $1 in nominal damages from Correctional Officer Francis Ryan, and nothing from Sergeant Curtis Schaffer. Read More. |
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