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An inmate who injured himself breaking out of a Colorado jail is suing on the grounds that guards should have done more to stop him escaping.
By The Week Staff | January 15, 2008
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n inmate who injured himself breaking out of a Colorado jail is suing on the grounds that guards should have done more to stop him escaping. Scott Gomez Jr. claims he was badly injured when he fell 40 feet while attempting to scale down the outside wall of the Pueblo County jail. Prison authorities, Gomez complains, “did next to nothing to ensure that the jail was secure and that the plaintiff could not escape.”
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