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New York: $225,000 Settlement for Prisoner’s Suicide Attempt, Abuse at Rikers Island
Loaded on May 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2013, page 40
In July 2012, the City of New York paid $225,000 to settle a lawsuit that alleged 17 causes of action arising “from a chain of disturbing events” that involved the treatment of a mentally ill prisoner at Rikers Island.When Robert Fecu was booked into the Anna M. Kross Center ...
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