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$150,000 Award after New York Prisoner’s Family Denied Right of Sepulcher

Loaded on Oct. 26, 2015 by Mark Wilson published in Prison Legal News November, 2015, page 46
Filed under: DOC/BOP misconduct, Denial of Religious Services. Location: New York.

$150,000 Award after New York Prisoner’s Family Denied Right of Sepulcher

by Mark Wilson

On February 6, 2014, a New York Court of Claims found that prison officials did not exercise reasonable efforts to locate a deceased prisoner’s next of kin before burying him in a prison cemetery.

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