Prisoner gets compensation over cockroaches


	Prisoner gets compensation over cockroaches

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12-11-2007 4:34 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a67cc704-cc85-4441-aa9e-be8d9fbc4c57/30EC9738-5E09-4E0D-A74C-81035083C738/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2007-12-11T155925Z_01_N11509632_RTRUKOC_0_US-COCKROACHES.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-L3-Oddly+Enough+NewsNews-2" href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2007-12-11T155925Z_01_N11509632_RTRUKOC_0_US-COCKROACHES.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-L3-Oddly+Enough+NewsNews-2" style="font-size: 11px;">today.reuters.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2007-12-11T155925Z_01_N11509632_RTRUKOC_0_US-COCKROACHES.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsArt-L3-Oddly+Enough+NewsNews-2"><P>An Israeli judge has ordered the country's prison authority to pay an inmate over $1,000 in compensation after he complained of having to share a cell with cockroaches.</P><P>Mordechai Yehudai filed a lawsuit complaining of poor hygiene, a lack of fresh air, broken windows and inmates who smoke in a handful of cells, a spokeswoman for the Israel Prisons Service said</P><P>"The Prisons Service mistreated the plaintiff in a number of ways, including ... broken windows, cockroaches as well as incarceration with smokers," judge Irit Cohen wrote in her verdict, according to newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.</P><P>The spokeswoman said the inmate's cell would be cleaned up. Yehudai has been held in three different prisons and has had complaints about conditions in all of them.</p> <P></p> <P>
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