A federal appeals court has thrown out a $150,001 verdict won by a former inmate who claimed he was denied food at Attica state prison, finding that jurors were erroneously allowed to consider a report by an inmate advocacy group that criticized conditions at the prison.
The report by the Correctional Association of New York relayed unidentified inmate comments about poor conditions at Attica, but it did not specify the allegations at issue in ex-inmate Isidro Abascal’s trial in the Western District of New York.
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