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Texas Prison Developer Arrested in Escape Plot
Loaded on May 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1996, page 8
A private prison developer with business ties to a former Texas state prison director was arrested in January and charged with plotting to help a convicted murderer escape from prison for a $750,000 fee.
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Contractor Misconduct,
Guard Misconduct,
Escapes.
Location:
Texas.
Patrick Harold Graham - using the alias Harold Robert also extended the offer to the convict's ...
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