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July 6, 2022

Justice Department Reaches Settlement with Men Detained After 9/11
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In Washington, the Justice Department has agreed to a $98,000 settlement
with a group of six Muslim, Arab and South Asian men who were rounded up
after the September 11 attacks and held in federal custody at the
Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. As part of the settlement,
the director of the Bureau of Prisons wrote a letter to the men
acknowledging that they were "held in excessively restrictive and unduly
harsh conditions of confinement." The letter also admitted that a number
of the men were physically and verbally abused by officers at the jail.
The agreement settles a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional
Rights.


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