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Four Indicted in Videotaped Brazoria Jail Beatings
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1998, page 19
FBI agents arrested three current and former Brazoria County jailers indicted July 29, 1998, on charges stemming from the infamous videotaped shakedown of Missouri prisoners in the Brazoria County "Rent-A-Jail." The three, Lester Arnold, David Cisneros and Robert Percival, along with former Capital Correctional Resources Inc. (CCRI) guard Wilton Wallace, …
Filed under:
Out of State Transfers,
Private Prisons,
Capital Correctional Resources Inc,
Criminal Prosecution,
Guard Brutality/Beatings.
Locations:
Missouri,
Texas.
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