Fink, Elizabeth M., 1945-2015
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Name (Latin)
Fink, Elizabeth M., 1945-2015
Other forms of name
Fink, Elizabeth Marsha, 1945-2015
Fink, Elizabeth, 1945-2015
Date of birth
1945-06-07
Date of death
2015-09-22
Field of activity
Civil rights lawyers
Prison reformers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
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Sources of Information
- New York times, 25 September 2015(Elizabeth Marsha Fink; born June 7, 1945, Brooklyn, [N.Y.]; died Tuesday [Sept. 22, 2015], Brooklyn, [N.Y.], aged 70; fiery advocate for society's outcasts who devoted much of her law career to vindicating and compensating inmate victims of the 1971 Attica prison uprising.)
- Elizabeth Fink entry (Elizabeth Fink (c. 1945-September 22, 2015) was an American civil rights and criminal defense attorney. She is most prominently associated with lawsuits concerning the Attica Prison riots. A class action suit she filed in 1974, against prison guards for torture and abuse during the riot, was settled in 2000, awarding $12 million to inmates. ( (Wikipedia, 3 October 2015) )