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Michigan Prisoner Beaten By Guards Awarded $6,004
Loaded on May 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2008, page 40
On November 17, 2006, a Michigan jury awarded state prisoner Robert Brooks $6,004 for a beating he received at the hands of two guards.Brooks, who was serving time in a maximum-security Michigan prison for a 1982 murder, claimed he was attacked and beaten in his cell by guards John …
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