"Today’s settlement sends a strong message that prison officers are not above the law. No one – not an inmate or a visitor – forfeits the right to safety when passing through the gates of a jail or prison. The attack on Thomas Hamm, a private citizen, was unnecessary and brutal and the cause was anti-gay violence and discrimination.”
(New York, October 29, 2015) — Lambda Legal has filed an amended complaint in a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of Thomas Hamm against the City of New York and New York City Department of Correction (DOC) officers and supervisors after a brutal attack on Mr. Hamm while he visited his partner, P.F., at a men’s facility on Rikers Island.
