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New Jersey Jail Settles Chemical Burn Suit for $900,000
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1999, page 16
On April 20, 1999, Atlantic County, New Jersey, paid $900,000 to settle a lawsuit involving extensive chemical burns suffered by a prisoner forced to do calisthenics in a pit filled with caustic chemicals. David Zamot was a non violent offender sentenced to the Gerald Gormley Justice Facility (GGJF) boot camp …
Filed under:
Toxic Fumes/Chemicals,
Boot Camps,
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Burning,
Damages,
Settlements,
Municipal Liability.
Location:
New Jersey.
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