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New Mexico CCA Disturbance Not Reported for Hours
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1998, page 8
The warden of a private prison in New Mexico said that prison staff may have delayed notifying state police about a disturbance that sent five guards to a hospital August 7, 1998.
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Contractor Misconduct,
Prison Rebellion.
Location:
New Mexico.
"It may be my fault we didn't respond quickly enough," said Donald A. Dorsey, warden of the Torrance …
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