JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge. This appeal primarily concerns the proper amount of compensatory and punitive damages that should be awarded to a prisoner in a section 1983 suit in which the prisoner alleged that he was sexually assaulted by a prison official. Roy Fries, an officer at the Suffolk County Correctional Facility (“SCCF”), appeals from the August 8, 1996, judgment of the District Court for the Eastern District of New…
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