Judge Morris Lasker, who cleaned up NYC jails, dies at 92

On December 30, 2009, in Legal News, by BradBernstein

Photo Credit: John Sotomayor/The New York Times

Photo Credit: John Sotomayor/The New York Times

Source: New York Times

Morris E. Lasker, a federal judge in New York and Massachusetts for four decades who struck down squalid, often brutal conditions in New York City jails and upheld prisoners’ rights perhaps more than any other jurist of his era, died Friday in Cambridge, Mass. He was 92 and had homes in Cambridge and Chilmark, Mass.

 

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