Missouri Awards Over $330,000 to SCCC Inmate Serving Life for Murder

A $330,111 settlement was awarded to Christopher Spates after the inmate at South Central Correctional Center in Licking was beaten by another inmate in 2018. Spates was handcuffed in a cell with another inmate at the time of the attack, while the inmate who attacked him was not restrained. Spates was convicted of the killing of a St. Louis woman in 2011.

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