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| Ex-inmate gets $1.4M in civil rights action |
| By Cincinnati Enquirer |
| Published: 09/12/2005 |
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A Pendleton County man sexually assaulted by inmates while jailed at the Grant County Detention Center in Kentucky has settled a federal civil rights suit for $1.4 million. It is the largest of seven payouts - totaling $1.9 million - that the jail's insurance company has paid since July to settle a series of civil rights cases. "Now that the settlements are approaching $2 million, it might be time all the public officials involved ... to finally come to a realization there are some terrible things that happened at the Grant County Detention Center," said the man's attorney, Don Nageleisen of Covington. A U.S. Justice Department report unsealed in July concluded that the jail violated inmates' constitutional rights Another group of former inmates is seeking to bring a class-action suit in federal court against the 300-bed jail. The Pendleton County resident had just turned 18 when he was locked up at the Grant County jail for failing to stop his vehicle for a trooper working radar in February 2003. His suit against the jail claimed that deputies told jail officers that he had been uncooperative and needed to be taught a lesson. In a videotape from a state trooper's cruiser, it appeared the 18-year-old was cooperative during the stop. The man was locked up overnight in a dormitory-style cell with convicted felons who assaulted him. Three Grant County jail inmates were convicted for their roles in the assault and sentenced to five to 15 years in prison. No officers were indicted by a Grant County grand jury that heard the case. |
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