Prisoner Sues Over Prosthetic Leg
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SCRANTON, Pa. - Schuylkill County Prison officials took an inmate's prosthetic leg when they found tobacco hidden in it, tossed it around until they broke it and refused to return it, the former inmate said in a federal lawsuit against the county, the prison and officials.
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A woman appears in court charged with wounding in connection with the death of a man found dead in a garden.
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A prisoner says he needed medical help after hearing an alleged confession in the Michael Stone appeal.
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VICTORVILLE, Calif. - A woman facing theft charges tried to get out of jail using a phony hospital letter claiming she needed a lifesaving pacemaker, authorities said.
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Dutch guards overseeing prisoners on supervised parole may soon have a new tool at their disposal: a robotic knee brace that sends an electrical impulse cramping prisoners' leg muscles if they try to slip away.
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A mentally ill paraplegic man filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a hospital that dumped him in a gutter on Los Angeles' "Skid Row" -- a case that highlighted the plight of the city's vast homeless population.
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A former British resident being held at GuantÃ¡namo is suing a subsidiary of the Boeing corporation which he alleges was involved in arranging for him to be taken to secret American prisons around the world.
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A pair of lawsuits filed on behalf of state prison inmates alleged to have died of medical neglect opens a new front in an effort to force prison reforms, family members said Monday.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A former handyman from North Providence who won more than $400,000 in a lawsuit over a malfunctioning penile implant may not get the money after a judge dismissed his claim. Superior Court Judge Edward C.
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Track and fieldâs world governing body ruled that a double-amputee sprinterâs state-of-the-art prosthetics give him an unfair advantage.
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A US man is charged with using his prosthetic leg to smuggle three endangered iguanas from Fiji.
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A British detainee claims he was subjected to &quot;vindictive torture&quot; and death threats by US authorities at Guantanamo Bay.
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The detention of a man with autism was a breach of his human rights, a court has ruled.
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A British detainee at Guantanamo Bay has claimed he was subjected to &quot;vindictive torture&quot; and death threats by the United States Authorities.
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CAIRO/ROME  - A Muslim cleric freed from a prison in Egypt four years after being grabbed in Milan in a suspected CIA kidnapping wants to sue former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi for damages, his lawyer said on Monday.
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Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, who is in a British jail on incitement to murder charges, is to sue welfare officials for thousands of pounds (dollars) in extra state benefits, a newspaper said.
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The Palestinian-born doctor held with five Bulgarian nurses in a Libyan prison for over eight years said Thursday that he was suing Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi for torture.