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California Guard Gets Prison in Child Molester Attacks
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1998
by Willie Wisely
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1998, page 15
by W. Wisely
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Prison/Jail Murders,
Failure to Protect (General).
Location:
California.
Jose Ramon Garcia, 42, was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison for soliciting Pelican Bay prisoners to assault alleged child molesters. The former prison guard's April sentencing in Del Norte County Superior Court came amid widening state and federal investigations into civil rights violations …
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