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CDC Trying to Polish Tarnished Image
Loaded on March 15, 1997
by Dan Pens
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1997, page 21
The editors of PLN receive newspaper clippings from all over the U.S. We recently received articles clipped from about a dozen California newspapers. The articles appeared in the same week and all were strikingly similar. They were about how California Department of Corrections (CDC) prison guards are facing stronger disciplinary ...
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Guard Misconduct,
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Guard Unions.
Location:
California.
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