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Corcoran Prison Cover-up
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1997
by Willie Wisely
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1997, page 14
by W. Wisely
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Gang Policies,
Retaliation,
Whistleblowing,
Prison/Jail Murders,
Exercise,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Shootings,
Guard Unions.
Location:
California.
On October 7, 1994, former California prison guard Richard Caruso decided he had enough. The frequent shooting of prisoners forced into fights staged, then covered up, by guards at Corcoran prison's Security Housing Unit (SHU) weighed on his conscience. So, Caruso gathered evidence of the abuse and …
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- New Plantation, by Bill Dunne
- Washington Grievance Mail Case Reversed
- Costs of Crime, by JW Mason
- Late Notice of Appeal Allowed
- Notes from the Unrepenitentiary, by Laura Whitehorn
- Eyewitness News from Missouri, by K.C.
- New Improved Chain Gang, by F.B.
- Circus is in Town
- Stunning Revelations, by Adrian Lomax
- Kansas Prisoners Lose Welfare Fund Suit
- PLRA's IFP Provisions Violate Equal Protection
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- PLRA IFP Provision Applied Retroactively
- PLRA Doesn't Apply Retroactively to Special Masters
- Rosenberg Fund for Children, by Carol Carvalho
- South Carolina Consent Decree Terminated under PLRA
- Corcoran Prison Cover-up, by Willie Wisely
- Tennessee Jail Overcrowding is State's Fault
- Prison Health Report Issued
- Book Review: Constitutional Rights of Prisoners
- Women's Prison Book Project
- World Criminal Justice Systems: A Survey
- Corrections in the Community (book)
- New Jersey Sex Offender Registration Injunction Vacated
- Prison Population Growth in 1995
- No Administrative Exhaustion Requirement in 7th Circuit
- Informant Testimony Must Be Reliable
- New York Work Release Creates Liberty Interest
- Private Prison Liable for Wrongful Imprisonment
- Lawsuits Target Georgia Prison Abuse, by Robert Bensing
- ADA Requires Phones for Deaf
- News in Brief
- Inadequate Public Defender Funding Unconstitutional
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- California Guards Bust Budget, June 15, 2002
- California Pays for Guard's Sexual Misconduct, Jan. 15, 2002
- Prison Guard Sentenced in Escape Plot, Dec. 15, 2001
- California Dials Wrong Number, Nov. 15, 2001
- Plug Pulled in California Prison, Nov. 15, 2001
- Cowboys and Prisoners, Sept. 15, 2001
- Racist Knot of Florida Guards, Sept. 15, 2001
- Brutality Behind the Orange Curtain, Aug. 15, 2001
- Pelican Bay Guard's Conviction Upheld, July 15, 2001
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