Beating Of Ex Federal Prisoner And Snitch Settles For $300,000

Loaded on March 15, 2009

Filed under: Transfers, Threats by Staff, DOC/BOP misconduct, Snitch Jacketing, Retaliatory Transfers, Failure to Treat, Failure to Protect (General), Settlements, Habeas Corpus, Federal Tort Claims Act, Protective Custody, Informants (Failure to Protect). Location: Minnesota.

Ex federal prisoner Mark Lang petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in 1993 and filed subsequent tort action in 1995 for redress after prison officials put him in a cell with a psychiatric patient who severely beat him. The suit settled for $300,000 in 1997.

Lang cooperated with the ...

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