Loaded on
June 1, 2025
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2025, page 12
On April 10, 2025, a jury in tiny Abingdon, Virginia (pop. 8,295) refused to assign liability to a half-dozen state Department of Corrections (DOC) employees accused in the death of mentally ill prisoner Charles Givens, 52, at Marion Correctional Treatment Center.
As PLN reported, five guards and the former warden …