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$130,000 in Damages and Fees Awarded in New York Retaliation Suit
Loaded on July 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1999, page 21
In the October, 1996, issue of PLN we reported Alnutt v. Cleary, 913 F. Supp. 160 (WD MY 1996). The case involves New York state prisoner Jeffrey Alnutt who filed suit in 1990 after various guards at the Wende Correctional Facility retaliated against him to prevent him from performing his ...
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