Court settlements reveal allegations against the state prison system ranging from beatings by correction officers to medical neglect that led to emergency surgeries and amputations.
Antoine Galloway still remembers the moment he was surrounded by seven corrections officers upset over a sexual assault grievance he’d filed against a guard at Clinton Correctional Facility in February 2016.
First came a punch to the face.
The Harlem native then felt large fists hitting his body, steel-toed boots kicking his legs, and a baton striking his ankle.
Everything went dark.
“I was covering my head to protect my face,” Galloway, 48, who was serving a sentence for robbery, told The City Reporter. “I blacked out twice and I knew it because I kept snapping back. They were just kicking, stomping, yelling all kind of racial slurs.”
Eight years later, New York State agreed to pay Galloway $150,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging the assault left him with sustained injuries and trauma.