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Family settles over Angola inmate death
By theadvocate.com- Joe Gyan Jr.
Published: 04/17/2014

A $24,000 settlement was reached Wednesday in a lawsuit that accused two now-former Louisiana State Penitentiary guards of trying to cover up an inmate’s 2007 strangulation death.

The wrongful death suit also alleged the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections was responsible for Jonathan Stevenson’s death.

“It wasn’t about money,” said Ralph Fletcher, who represents Stevenson’s two children, outside state District Judge Wilson Fields’ courtroom. “They wanted someone to take a stand and say this was a homicide. It was a homicide — no doubt.”

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