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Warden Used "Force" in Sexual Assault
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1999, page 12
Warden Used "Force" in Sexual Assault
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.
Location:
Mississippi.
Walter Lucas was Acting Warden of the River County Jail in River City, Mississippi, when he asked a male prisoner to act as lookout so that he could take care of some "business" with a female prisoner in a secluded room adjacent to his ...
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