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Jayshawn Boyd , 22, woke up from a coma nearly three months after he was brutally beaten by seven inmates in the ‘gang unit’ in the Essex County Correctional Facility. A jury found Byad Lockett and Darryl Watson guilty in the Sept. 2021 Essex County jail attack against then 21-year-old Jayshawn Boyd , prosecutors announced Wednesday. The jail inmates who attacked Jayshawn Boyd in Essex County’s lockup on Sept. 23rd had no fear – not only of being caught, but of being interrupted. On September 23, 2021, seven inmates attacked Boyd in the common area of the C-pod, beating him unconscious by punching him in the face and stomping on his head. Upon seeing the riot, the sole. Nearly six weeks after that attack, as Boyd regains consciousness from a coma at University Hospital, his family and dozens of protesters gathered at the county building to demand accountability from prison officials and the firing of the jail’s guards. Jayshawn Boyd has filed a lawsuit against the Essex County jail after he was nearly beaten to death at the facility last year. He is pictured with his brother and sister before the attack. Essex County Executive Joe DiVincenzo is named as a defendant in a civil suit by Jayshawn Boyd , who was brutally beaten by fellow prisoners at the county jail in Newark in 2021. The caught-on-camera beatdown at the Essex County Correctional Facility left Jayshawn Boyd , 22, fighting for his life in a coma, his lawyers said Monday. Surveillance video of the incident on September 23, 2021, shows 22-year-old Jayshawn Boyd was relentlessly attacked for two minutes and 23 second by a group of seven fellow detainees in the Essex County Correctional Facility (ECCF) gang unit, who knocked him to the floor and stomped on his head, beating him with fists, a broom, a microwave oven. The 22-year-old, Jayshawn Boyd, should never have been placed into “ a designated gang unit ,” a lawyer for his family says. And the jail’s staff didn’t respond quickly enough to intervene.