A “dangerous” and unnecessary” 30-day lockdown at Bayside State Prison after a 1997 murder of a guard made the state liable for ensuing abuse inflicted on inmates by the Department of Corrections’ Special Operations Group, says a federal court special master.
“By the very nature of the SOG deployment, there was an inherent and obvious potential for abuse of the rights of inmates with no likely accountability for the perpetrators,” wrote John Bissell, retired chief judge of U.S. District Court in New Jersey, in a March 29 report.
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