Facility Kept Dying Judge Phillips Hostage, Lawsuit Claims

A Park Slope nursing home has been slapped with new charges that it held a frail Brooklyn judge prisoner by blocking his mail and visitors.

The allegations are the latest twist in a case launched this year by the family of Judge John Phillips against Prospect Park Residence - where Phillips lived for eight months until he died at age 83 in 2008.

"The whole thing was surreal," said John O'Hara, a lawyer for Phillips' family and also a longtime friend. "It looked like a nice place, but it was a death house."

Court papers filed Wednesday said nursing home officials misled Phillips' family and attorneys about the services they could provide for the diabetic ex-judge.

O'Hara "recently discovered that [Prospect Park Residence] was not in fact an assisted-living facility as they claimed to be," the lawsuit charged.

Phillips allegedly didn't get diabetic meals and regular insulin shots, which caused his health to plummet.

"Judge Phillips was confined against his will for approximately eight months by the defendants at their facility ... denying [him] proper medical care," the suit charged.

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Nursing Home Kept Dying Judge John Phillips Hostage in 'Death House,' Lawsuit Claims

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