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$35,000 Awarded to CA Prisoner in Beating Suit
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2000, page 26
On October 14, 1999, U.S. district court judge Susan Illston ruled that three Pelican Bay state prison guards had violated the Eighth amendment rights of prisoner Ricky Gray. Gray had filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that while being unhandcuffed one of the guards pulled on the loose ...
Filed under:
Attorney Fee Awards,
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Restraints,
Damages.
Location:
California.
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