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WI Guard Indicted for Mail Obstruction
Loaded on March 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1995, page 3
In the October, 1994, issue of PLN we reported that U.S. Postal investigators were investigating the discovery of large quantities of prisoner mail found in the garbage at the Waupun Correctional Institution in Wisconsin. On December 8, 1994, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Thomas Schneider, announced …
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Mail Regulations.
Location:
Wisconsin.
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