A federal class action lawsuit accuses Massachusetts prison officials of violently retaliating against inmates at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center after an assault on a correction officer. The lawsuit alleges that officers targeted prisoners, particularly those of color, with excessive force, including beatings, eye gouging, and use of chemical agents.
A federal class action lawsuit, filed by advocacy group Prisoners Legal Services of Massachusetts , accuses state correction officials of violently retaliating against prisoners at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley after an
"This unconstitutional brutality included beating and kicking prisoners; gouging eyes; grabbing testicles; smashing faces into the ground or wall; deploying Taser guns, pepperball guns, and other chemical agents; ordering K9s to menace and bite prisoners; and excessively tightening handcuffs and forcing prisoners’ arms into unnatural and painful positions, among other positional torture tactics," the suit reads.
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