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Eyewitness News from Missouri
This is the eyewitness account of what went down here at the Jefferson City Correctional Facility on August 10, 1996. At about three in the afternoon, a prisoner in Four House was being seen on a [disciplinary] violation. The caseworker (guard) got loud with the prisoner and he stabbed her. …
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- Eyewitness News from Missouri, Feb. 15, 1997
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