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Fix the jail security system, says activist
Mar 02, 2011 9:20 am
Mid Hudson News Network is running a story about Community activist Paul Fowler of Saugerties, who suffered a broken leg while he was incarcerated at the Ulster County Jail last year and is pushing a legal case for the sake of "making sure security equipment is up to snuff rather than for any monetary award." Fowler was injured by another inmate and he has filed a notice of intent to sue the county for damages, contending the security camera system was not working properly; therefore, his attacker could not be identified. “This problem has happened before and I stand fast and I stand hard as a community advocate and as an activist; they can offer me $100 million, I don’t care,” he said. “I will not accept any settlement unless they prove to myself and my attorney, David Clegg, that they have repaired that camera system and that it is up and running for the protection of the officers and the inmates of the Ulster County Jail.” Fowler, who was doing time for criminal contempt tied to his advocacy campaign to keep the Ulster County methadone clinic open on weekends and holidays, was injured last November 14 when he left his cell to get medication. In his court papers, he charged he was “violently assaulted” by another inmate.