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“Beat Up Squad” at New York Prison Accused of Killing Mentally Ill Prisoner
Loaded on June 30, 2017
by Joe Watson
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2017, page 62
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Excessive Force (Wrongful Death),
Mental Health.
Location:
New York.
by Joe Watson
A number of prisoners at the medium-security Fishkill Correctional Facility in upstate New York swore under oath that fellow prisoner Samuel D. Harrell III was kicked and beaten to death by as many as twenty guards in April 2015.
According to at least 19 signed affidavits, the ...
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