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$15.000 Settles Multiple Civil Rights Complaints
Loaded on Dec. 28, 2017
by Christopher Zoukis
Filed under:
Racial Discrimination,
Eighth Amendment,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Freedom of Information Act,
Religion Defined,
Informants (Failure to Protect).
Location:
Colorado.
by Christopher Zoukis
The Bureau of Prisons settled multiple civil rights lawsuits brought by prisoner David Y. Merritt in March 2002.
Merritt, an imprisoned government informant, filed several lawsuits against the Bureau of Prisons in federal court between 1995 and 2001. He alleged a litany of constitutional …
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