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TX Guards Charged in Beating Murder
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1995, page 8
On October 7, 1994, 15 of about 300 prisoners in the recreation yard of the Terrell Prison Unit in Livingston, TX, attacked prison staff. One guard suffered a broken nose. Prison guards beat several prisoners in retaliation for the attack. On October 9, 1994, Michael McCoy died in a hospital ...
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Prison/Jail Murders,
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings.
Location:
Texas.
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