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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
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 ...
Filed under:
Clothing,
Sanitation,
Strip Cells,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Restraints,
Civil Procedure,
Damages,
Defenses,
Jury Instructions,
New Trial Motions,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
New York.
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