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Informant Sues Over Disclosure
Loaded on April 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1994, page 11
Steve Rutledge is an informant in the Illinois state prison system. While housed at the Joliet prison he informed on members of the North Side gang who were planning an escape attempt. As a result, the would-be escapees were segregated, infracted and punished. Prison officials promised Rutledge fabricated infractions to ...
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