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New York Woman Raped by Prison Guard Receives $1.1 Million Award

Loaded on Aug. 8, 2016

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Failure to Protect (General). Location: New York.

A New York Court of Claims awarded $605,750 to a former prisoner who was the victim of an attempted rape and completed rape by a guard at the Albion Correctional Facility (ACF).

The award followed the Court’s grant of summary judgment that found the New York State Department of Corrections …

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