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$30,000 Awarded to NY Prisoner Slashed in Attack
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2001, page 28
On September 15, 1999, the New York court of claims awarded $30,000 in damages to New York state prisoner Mario Vasquez. In 1995, Vasquez was slashed in a stairwell at Collins Correctional Facility by two knife-wielding prisoners. The day before the attack, Vasquez was involved in a fistfight with another …
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