A jury awarded a former inmate over $19 million in damages for an assault by a counselor, but two prison officials claimed they weren’t deliberately indifferent to her plight.
CHICAGO (CN) — Two officials of Illinois’ Logan Correctional Center will face a new trial over damages in a case accusing them of using an inmate as bait to prove her own sexual assault, a Seventh Circuit panel ruled Thursday, finding a lower court improperly excluded evidence.
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