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Nine Florida Prison Guards Indicted, Fired
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1998, page 4
Nine Florida state prison guards were indicted July 10, 1998, on federal conspiracy and civil rights violation felony charges in the death of a prisoner who was chained, beaten, and left to bleed to death. A tenth guard, presumably the one who broke the "code of silence" to testify on ...
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
HIV/AIDS,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Prison/Jail Murders,
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings.
Location:
Florida.
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