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| Jury rules against prison officers |
| By Courier-Post |
| Published: 06/09/2004 |
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A federal jury on Tuesday found that members of a prestigious unit of N.J. corrections officers sent to enforce a lockdown of inmates at Bayside State Prison in 1997 had used excessive force against an inmate. The unanimous verdict in the civil rights lawsuit filed by 40-year-old Laverna White of Clifton before U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler included an award of $1,000 in compensatory damages and $18,000 in punitive damages. Ordered to pay punitive awards, at $6,000 each, were Scott Faunce, administrator of the prison; Gary Hilton, the second-in-command of the Department of Corrections, and Theodore Roth, the chief officer of the Special Operations Group. The 10-member jury deliberated for about 10 hours over two days in the trial, the third of four scheduled before Kugler. |
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