$7,000 Settlement after Second Circuit Reverses Dismissal of New York Prisoner’s Suit

Loaded on Aug. 2, 2016 by Derek Gilna published in Prison Legal News August, 2016, page 52

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Threats by Staff, DOC/BOP misconduct, Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Snitch Jacketing, Malicious Prosecution, Counsel, Failure to Protect (General), Food, Sanitation, Legal Property, Wrongful Imprisonment, Due Process, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Suicides. Location: New York.

In 2007, prisoner Aaron Willey filed a pro se federal civil rights lawsuit against guards employed by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, alleging harassment, inadequate nutrition, theft of legal documents, malicious prosecution, false imprisonment and unsanitary conditions of confinement.

Willey claimed that after he refused ...

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