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THE State will have to pay out millions of dollars in compensation to two groups of prisoners who were brutally assaulted by prison and police officers during a violent riot at the Golden Grove Prison in Arouca in 2006.

On April 17, the Privy Council ruled in favour of the inmates who had initially won their lawsuits against the State for the beatings they endured during the prison uprising.

In 2012, Justice Judith Jones held the attack on the 57 prisoners was unjustified and unreasonable.