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New York Prisoner Wins $50,000 In Failure To Treat Mental Illness Suit
Loaded on June 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2000, page 9
by Matthew T. Clarke A federal district court in New York has held that officials of the New York Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) subjected a prisoner to cruel and unusual punishment through their deficient treatment of his mental illness and by the brutal conditions under which he was incarcerated.
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