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Violence Increases in Fed Prisons
Loaded on July 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1995, page 15
BOP records show an increase of violence at the five older U.S. Penitentiaries at Atlanta, Leavenworth, Lewisburg, Lompoc and Terre Haute. Statistics from the two newer prisons at Florence and Allenwood are not yet available.
Filed under:
Failure to Protect (General),
Overcrowding,
Staffing,
Sentencing.
Location:
United States of America.
BOP records show that prisoner assaults on guards increased 11% in 1994 over the previous …
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