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Gang War Assault States Claim
Loaded on July 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1996, page 20
A federal district court in New York held that a prisoner who was attacked as part of a "war" between Hispanic and Jamaican prisoners stated an eighth amendment claim for prison officials' failure to protect him. Ted Knowles is a New York state prisoner originally from the island of Antigua, ...
Filed under:
Gang Policies,
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General).
Location:
New York.
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