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| Cell Attack Ends In Lawsuit |
| By post-gazette.com |
| Published: 01/26/2011 |
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Prisoner Robert E. Ivory asked for a transfer to a preferred cell block, and got it, but found himself assigned to room with a "Viking," he testified Monday during the first day of a federal trial in his civil lawsuit against three state correctional employees. By the time his two-week stay with Russell Nance was over, Mr. Ivory told a six-member jury, he'd been grossed out, threatened and kept awake all night by his "cellie" -- all of which he said he told officials at the State Correctional Institution Fayette. But his pleas to move were ignored, he said, until Mr. Nance stabbed him six times with a pen. "I was scared to death," Mr. Ivory said, during his sometimes tearful testimony. "That's quite a story Mr. Ivory has," said lawyer Douglas B. Barbour, of the state attorney general's office, defending the employees. "That's all it is -- a story." Mr. Ivory, 43, of Allentown, was imprisoned for robbery, threats and simple assault and is now an inmate at SCI Somerset. He told the jury that in a lifetime of ending up in bad places, he has never seen anything quite like SCI Fayette's Cell 1031, nor met anyone like Mr. Nance. Read More. |
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