| Small Sued Prison System in
2009 Now SDNY Bench Trial On Vulnerable Inmate
in Day Room
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 1 – Samuel Small
sued the prison system in 2009
for an incident in 2006. On
August 14, 2020 U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Ronnie Abrams held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
Now after
eleven (or fourteen) years,
the issue was whether the
parties are ready to go to
trial in November 2020, given
the pandemic.
Judge Abrams
asked for a letter by August
20 as to "whether they wish to
proceed with the November 16,
2020 trial date or seek an
adjournment... the number of
jurors that they request."
Now in late
May and June 1, 2021, the jury
trial concluded with the
governmental defendants
scoffing that Small felt he
was in danger, if he
voluntarily went in the day
room. Small's lawyer countered
that the guards did even know
what a vulnerable inmate was.
The case is Small
v. New York City Department of
Correction et al., 09-cv-1912
(Abrams)
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