Number	25225
Subject	Prisons
Source	Belleville News-Democrat
State	IL
Year	2011
Publication Date	12/30/2010; 07/10;2011
Summary	More than 230 guards at the Menard Correctional Center, a maximum security Illinois prison, claimed to have acquired carpal tunnel syndrome of the wrist by turning keys or operating cell locking mechanisms. These claims resulted in in taxpayer-funded partial disability payments totaling more than $10 million paid to guards who returned to work full-time operating the same locks.
Category	Contest Entry
Pages	27
Keywords	Menard Correctional Center; prison; carpal tunnel syndrome
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