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$74,000 Awarded to Slashed New York Prisoner
Loaded on May 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2001, page 21
In July 2000, New York court of claims judge Ferris Lebous awarded $74,000 in damages to a prisoner slashed in an attack by another prisoner. On February 19, 1991, Billy Blake was in the segregation unit of the Shawangunk Correctional Facility. When Blake went to the segregation units recreation yard ...
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