Civil Rights
Sep. 29, 2009
State Will Pay Unprecedented Sum to Inmate
In what's being called the largest settlement ever for a prisoner-employee, California prison authorities agreed this month to pay $138,000 to an inmate who suffered permanent lung damage from a poor work environment.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - In what's being called the largest settlement ever for a prisoner-employee, California prison authorities agreed this month to pay $138,000 to an inmate who suffered permanent lung damage from a poor work environment.
Leonard Moreno alleged in a 2005 federal lawsuit that officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and California Priso...
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