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Government Says No Criminal Conduct in New Jersey Mass Prisoner Beating, But Jury Awards Abused Prisoner $19,000; Sexual Harassment Suit Settled for $250,000
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2005, page 28
Government Says No Criminal Conduct in New Jersey Mass
Filed under:
Staff-Staff Harassment,
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Lockdowns,
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings.
Location:
New Jersey.
Prisoner Beating, But Jury Awards Abused Prisoner $19,000;
Sexual Harassment Suit Settled for $250,000
by Matthew T. Clarke
Despite government reports claiming that guards committed no crimes in the alleged mass beating of prisoners at Bayside Prison in 1997, on June …
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