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VA Guards Indicted in Beatings
Loaded on June 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1995, page 7
In September of 1993 Charles Coates, a prisoner in the Greensville Correctional Center at Jarratt, VA, was handcuffed and shackled when a prison guard lifted him up and slammed him to the floor face first. Coastes says he blacked out and when he awoke another guard was kneeling on his …
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Racial Discrimination,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Guard Brutality/Beatings.
Location:
Virginia.
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