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New York City Settles Prisoner-On-Prisoner Assault for $180,000
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2008, page 26
On October 23, 2006, the City of New York agreed to pay $180,000 to a prisoner who suffered facial injuries as the result of an attack by another prisoner.City prisoner Ivan Miller, 34, claimed that on June 30, 1998, while imprisoned at the Brooklyn House of Detention he was ...
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