Wrongfully Imprisoned D.C. Disabled Man Settles Suit For $1.74 Million

Loaded on March 15, 2006 published in Prison Legal News March, 2006, page 24

Filed under: Deaf Prisoners, Disabled Prisoners, Sentencing, Wrongful Imprisonment, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness). Location: District of Columbia.

by Michael Rigby

The District of Columbia and a private medical provider have agreed to pay $1.74 million to Joseph Heard, a deaf, mute, and mentally disabled man who was wrongfully imprisoned in the D.C. jail for nearly two years.

Heard's ordeal [originally reported in PLN, April 2002] began in ...

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