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New York Prisoner Attacked On Bus Awarded $600,000
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2006, page 26
On April 28, 2005, a New York prisoner was awarded $600,000 for injuries he sustained when other prisoners attacked him on a prison bus.
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General),
Transportation.
Location:
New York.
Plaintiff Daniel Arroyo, 17, was convicted of a youthful offense. On November 9, 1994, while being transported from court to the Rikers Island Correctional Facility, Arroyo …
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