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Gay Bashing Illinois Guards to Pay $65,000 for Savage Beating
Loaded on July 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2003, page 26
A man who was brutally beaten by jail guards while in custody at the Cook County Jail in Chicago will receive $65,000 in a settlement approved in June 2002.
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Gay/Lesbian,
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings.
Location:
Illinois.
Terry Phalen, now 42 and admittedly gay, was awaiting a bond hearing in October 1999 on auto theft charges when three …
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