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| Mich. To Pay $365,000 in Discipline Case |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/23/2006 |
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The state of Michigan will have to pay $365,000 in a lawsuit settlement with a Michigan prison camp inmate who said he was strapped in a chair for six hours after collapsing during a run. Craig Cook, 28, of Manistee, was hospitalized nearly two months for kidney failure after the incident at Cassidy Lake boot camp in July 1999. The settlement was announced in December but at the time attorneys did not disclose how much Cook was paid because of a confidentiality agreement. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reported last week it learned the amount through a Freedom of Information request to the Michigan Department of Corrections. The Department of Corrections said last week it didn't have any comment. Cook was serving two to four years in prison for a marijuana conviction in Manistee County when he was transferred to the prison camp, a 90-day alternative to prison. The day Cook arrived at the camp, he participated in a "motivational run" and collapsed, according to a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling. He was taken to a control room, where he was strapped into a restraint chair and eventually passed out, the document said. Cook was not taken to a hospital until the following day, it said. The lawsuit alleged a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Cook was released on parole in April 2000. |
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