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NYC Claims Prisoners Shoot Themselves to File Suit
Loaded on April 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1993, page 3
New York City commissioners claim that for the last several years prisoners have paid jail guards to smuggle guns in to them, whereupon they shoot themselves and then sue the city for failing to protect them. A city official claims "There are at least five lawsuits presently pending against the ...
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