The Colorado Department of Corrections has reached a $1.1 million settlement with inmate John Snorksy, who alleged that he was left vulnerable within the state prison system. Snorksy was serving a 30-year prison sentence for an attempted kidnapping in 2013.
DENVER — It’s believed to be one of the largest – if not the largest – settlement with an inmate in the Colorado Department of Corrections.
In 2017, following a series of assaults on Snorksy over the span of multiple months, three inmates violently attacked Snorsky inside Colorado State Penitentiary. In the lawsuit, originally handwritten and filed in the federal court system by Snorsky himself, Snorksy alleged DOC employees deliberately left him vulnerable to an increasingly violent series of assaults and attacks by inmates.The day of the stabbings, Snorksy was asked “through the cell intercom system if he wanted to have his cell door opened so he could come out of his cell,” read the complaint.
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