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| NYC Settles Lawsuit With Former Inmates, Feds Over Abuses at Rikers Island |
| By slate.com- Beth Ethier |
| Published: 06/23/2015 |
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The City of New York reached a settlement Monday in a class-action lawsuit alleging systemic mistreatment of inmates at Rikers Island jail. Nunez v. City of New York was filed in 2012 by the Legal Aid Society and former inmates of the notorious facility, and they were joined last December by the United States Department of Justice. The practice of holding teenagers in solitary confinement at Rikers has been criticized in part to the case of Kalief Browder. Browder was sent to Rikers when he was 16 and held for three years without trial, including two years in solitary confinement, and struggled to recover after his release. Browder committed suicide earlier this month at the age of 22. The Times reports that 11 of the named plaintiffs in the Nunez case have agreed to the basic parameters of monetary settlements for their individual claims, and that another plaintiff recently agreed to settle his case for $200,000. Read More. |
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