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$150,000 Jury Award in Beating Case Affirmed

Loaded on April 15, 1996 published in Prison Legal News April, 1996, page 21
Filed under: Clothing, Sanitation, Strip Cells, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Restraints, Civil Procedure, Damages, Defenses, Jury Instructions, New Trial Motions, Qualified Immunity. Location: New York.
The court of appeals for the second circuit held that a prisoner beaten and held in a strip cell was properly awarded $150,000 in compensatory and punitive damages by a jury. Donovan Blissett, a New York state prisoner, filed suit after Attica prison guards severely beat him after claiming he ...

 

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