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New York Prisoner Beaten By Unofficial Enforcer Awarded $500,000
Loaded on June 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2007, page 41
A man who claimed he was beaten while imprisoned at New York?s Rikers Island jail complex will receive $500,000 under the terms of a settlement agreement reached with the City on February 14, 2007.
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Jail Misconduct,
Gang Policies,
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General).
Location:
New York.
Donald Jackson had claimed in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit that he was beaten by ...
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