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September 4, 2015

New York City to Pay $450,000 over Beating of Rikers Island Prisoner 
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New York City has announced it will pay nearly half a million dollars to
settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by 27-year-old Robert Hinton, who
was hogtied and beaten by corrections officers at Rikers Island in 2012.
Hinton was imprisoned in the solitary confinement unit for men with
mental illness when a beating from corrections officers left him with a
broken nose, a fractured vertebra and a bleeding mouth. His case has
already led to the firing of a captain and five officers involved in the
beating.

 

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