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CSC Alien Abuse Class Action Settled for $2.5 Million

Loaded on Sept. 15, 2006 published in Prison Legal News September, 2006, page 26
Filed under: Esmor/CSC, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Strip Searches, Body Cavity Searches, Totality of Conditions, Attorney Fee Awards, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Class Certification, Immigration. Location: New Jersey.

On August 10, 2005, a federal court in New Jersey approved a settlement in Brown v. Esmor
Correctional Services Inc., USDC No. 98-1282 (DNJ). Esmor Correctional Services Inc. (Esmor) later known as Correctional Services Corporation (CSC), agreed to pay the plaintiff-alien class $2.5 million for abuses suffered while detained in ...

 

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