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A Victory in PA: Pittsburgh jury awards $185K to state prisoner

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

From the Human Rights Coalition---FedUp! Chapter Andre Jacobs, a captive of SCI Fayette in the PA DOC, was awarded $185,000 in compensatory damages by a jury today for violations of his constitutional rights while being hled in the Long Term Segregation Unit in SCI Pittsburgh in 2003. Andre represented himself at trial, and prevailed despite being forced to wear a remote-controlled electro-shock stun belt throughout that was controlled by DOC staff. Two of Andre's witnesses testified to Judge Conti that prison guards working the Special Management Unit (SMU) in Camp Hill threatened them for their participation in the case, with both testifying that C/O Uler assaulted one of the witnesses. In the first of three upcoming jury trials (the other two are scheduled for January and February) in Federal Court, Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 25, 2008 (boomark / email).