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MONROE, Wash. (AP) – The state Department of Corrections will pay $1.5 million to a man’s family after a Lynden man was accused of stomping him to death in the Monroe prison.
Benjamin Price, who was doing time for killing his ex-girlfriend Dawn Ruger in 2006 and hiding her body in rural Whatcom County, was charged in connection with the man’s death.
He was found incompetent to stand trial and is now receiving treatment at Western State Hospital.
The Daily Herald of Everett reports the federal lawsuit accused corrections officers of failing to protect the Centralia man from being killed in May 2015.
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