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Abuse of Prisoners Confirmed at CCA Facility
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1999, page 18
On August 5, 1998, Jerry Reeves, a guard at Tennessee's Whiteville Correctional Facility (WCF), suffered near-fatal injuries in an altercation with prisoners. WCF, which houses prisoners from Wisconsin, is owned and operated by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). In the days following the assault on Reeves, CCA employees investigated …
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