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Georgia Prison Guards Speak Out
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1997
by Dan Pens
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1997, page 10
Shortly after Wayne Garner took over as Georgia's Corrections Commissioner in December 1995, he addressed the state legislature wherein he quipped, "...thirty to thirty-five percent [of GA prisoners] ain't fit to kill, and I'm going to be there to accommodate them." [See: "Georgia Prisons Enter the Dark Ages," PLN Vol. ...
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Retaliation,
Whistleblowing,
Prison/Common Area Searches,
Guard Brutality/Beatings.
Location:
Georgia.
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