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CDC Issues New Shooting Policy
Loaded on April 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1995, page 3
In the March, 1995, issue of PLN we reported that the FBI was investigating the California Department of Corrections' (CDC) policy of shooting prisoners. That policy had lead to CDC guards shooting and killing at least 27 prisoners between 1989 and 1994, compared to eight in the other 49 states ...
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- CDC Issues New Shooting Policy
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