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Who's Treating the Doctor
Loaded on July 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1995, page 14
In September, 1994, the Washington DOC hired James McGuire to work as a psychiatrist at the McNeil Island Corrections Center (MICC). His work involves diagnosing and prescribing drugs to sex offenders, among other prisoners at the facility. This in itself is unremarkable. What is unusual is the fact that McGuire …
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