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New Jersey Jail Brutality Settlement
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1997, page 26
Seventeen former detainees of the Sussex County (NJ) Jail settled a lawsuit alleging a pattern and practice of guard brutality, inadequate medical and psychiatric care, and inadequate legal access. As part of the settlement, the county agreed to pay $372,000; install video surveillance cameras throughout the jail, including in the …
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