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$3.5 Million Settlement in Teen’s Death at New York Juvenile Facility
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2012, page 25
A $3.5 million settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over the death of a juvenile offender who was restrained by two staffers at the Tryon Boys Residential Center in Fulton County, New York.
Filed under:
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Stun Guns/Tasers,
Wrongful Death,
Juvenile Prisons.
Location:
New York.
The suit claimed that the civil rights of Darryl Anthony Thompson, 15, were violated as a ...
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