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A convicted man has been awarded over $100,000 in damages after he was found to have been unjustly held in solitary confinement for months.
Aaron Daniele, 34, successfully sued the South Australian Department of Correctional Services just prior to Christmas last year for the time he spent in Yatala Prison's notorious maximum security division at Northfield, in Adelaide's north, nearly seven years earlier.
Daniele, who suffers from PTSD, anxiety, panic attacks and depression, was transferred to the prison without a formal report or risk assessment, breaching state law.
He would then spend 66 days in the notorious G Division of the prison, where it was found he faced mental anguish from the claustrophobic prison cell and prison guards.
Daniele was awarded $107,500 in damages, $2,000 more than he asked for, which will stay in a secure fund for 12 months and 45 days to give victims of his crimes a chance to sue him for damages.
A convicted burglar, Aaron Daniele (pictured, 2017) has been awarded more than $100K in damages after he was unlawfully placed in maximum security for 66 days in 2016
Daniele was at the time serving a four-year sentence at Port Augusta Prison, just east of the regional South Australian town, after pleading guilty to aggravated burglary in Adelaide's north in October, 2010.
However, a riot at the prison in October, 2016 involving 17 other prisoners set off a series of events that landed Daniele in Yatala Prison's maximum security.
Daniele was not involved or charged in regards to the riot but had 'breathing difficulties' after guards used
