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Pelican Bay Guard Indicted in Shooting
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1999
by Willie Wisely
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1999, page 13
by W. Wisely
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Criminal Prosecution,
Prosecutors,
Excessive Force,
Shootings.
Location:
California.
For the second time in less than two years, a California prison has become the target of a U.S. Justice department investigation. In part of what is expected to be a wider civil rights prosecution, a federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted fired Pelican Bay prison ...
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