By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
November 27. 2015
A federal court jury in the People’s Republic of San Francisco and just awarded a Pelican Bay inmate $25,000 because the cops trashed his cell.
Jesse Perez, 35, was a prisoner at Pelican Bay in October of 2012. He was, and probably still is, a pain in the ass. He alleged that Sgt. Anthony Gates and several other officers trashed his cell as payback for his published writings about the (alleged) shortcomings of the prison system. The jury believed it and awarded him $20,000 in general damages and $5,000 in punitive damages against Sgt. Gates, who led the search team.
Perez has been in the system since age 15 for a crime his lawyer has declined to specify, but it probably wasn’t singing too loudly in church. His is a Mexican Mafia affiliate.
1 comment:
I remember cell shake downs at the Old TDC. Lots of contraband was found and we never cleaned up after ourselves.
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