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NY Prisoners Awarded Damages in Beatings

Loaded on Sept. 15, 1995 published in Prison Legal News September, 1995, page 16
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Attorney Fee Awards, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings. Location: New York.
A June 4, 1992 incident at the Clinton Correctional Facility started when a prisoner standing in "rec line" waiting to be escorted to the keeplock recreation yard dropped a piece of candy on the floor. Several of his buddies started laughing and jostling with each other to get at the ...

 

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