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Fired SCI Greene Guards Regain Jobs
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1998, page 6
After months of negotiation with the union, the Pennsylvania DOC agreed to reinstate two guards who were fired from its Greene County prison. George Reposky and Mark Powell were fired and other guards were disciplined in May 1998 for using excessive force against SCI Greene prisoners. [See: "Whitewash in Greene …
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Guard Unions.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
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