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$250,000 in Hawaii Beating Death
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2002, page 19
In May 2001, the Hawaii prison system paid $250,000 to settle a lawsuit stemming from a prisoner being beaten to death by prison guards. In 1999 Antonio Revera, 26, was serving a 10 year sentence for rape in the Halawa Correctional Facility. While being transferred out of the prison's medical ...
Filed under:
Crime/Demographics,
Prison/Jail Murders,
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings.
Location:
Hawaii.
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