A Jewish prisoner at the privately run Port Phillip Prison was beaten by prison guards in a dispute over his wearing a Yarmulka, The Age reports.
Police are investigating the allegation of the 38-year-old prisoner, currently serving a six-month sentence for burglary. The man spent four nights in St Vincent’s Hospital after the beating. He was then transferred to the government-run Melbourne Assessment Prison.
The man sustained severely blackened and bruised eyes, a broken nose, cut to his face and damage to his left shoulder, when he was stomped on while lying on the ground, when prison officers’ demanded that he should remove his Yarmulka.
A spokeswoman for Corrections Victoria, said that police were investigating the allegations but no charges had yet been laid.
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