Former inmate awarded $4.3 million in lawsuit against Nevada Department of Corrections

Ryan Ferguson awarded $10 million in damages after vacated conviction

Ferguson will receive $1 million for each year he was imprisoned. In testimony Monday, he said he has struggled to find consistent work.

Former inmate awarded $4.3 million in lawsuit against Nevada Department of Corrections

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Four years after his release from a Nevada prison, former inmate Nicolai Mork was awarded $4.3 million by a federal jury in Reno. Mork spent three years in jail at the Stewart Conservation Camp, where he claimed he was denied “adequate” medical treatment and, in turn, filed a lawsuit.  “I hope it shows the state of Nevada that it will be cheaper for them to provide the medical care they constitutionally owe to incarcerated peo…