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BOSTON — An agreement by state officials to pay a $6.75 million settlement in a lawsuit brought by nearly 160 incarcerated people at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley received a judge’s approval last Friday. The plaintiffs claimed they were victims of a “weeks-long campaign of violence” by corrections officers.
Lawyers representing incarcerated individuals called the settlement a landmark civil rights case on Tuesday and said the prison has been “plagued with violence since it opened in 1998.” State officials originally announced they reached a settlement agreement in May…