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Death Threats and "Snitch Jacketing" by Guards Unlawful
Loaded on March 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1993, page 3
Craig Northington is a Colorado state prisoner assigned to community placement. While going to his work site plainclothes prison officials surprised him, put guns to his head without identifying themselves as prison guards, threatened to kill him and verbally and physically assaulted him while returning him to the local jail. …
Filed under:
Work Release,
Guard Misconduct,
Threats by Staff,
Snitch Jacketing,
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General).
Location:
Colorado.
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