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California Guards Indicted in Rapes
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1999
by Willie Wisely
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1999, page 8
By W. Wisely
Filed under:
Prisoner-Prisoner Assault,
Guard Misconduct,
Threats by Staff,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Failure to Protect (General).
Location:
California.
More than five years after they set two prisoners up to be raped, then concealed their crimes by falsifying documents and lying to investigators, five guards from California's Corcoran prison were indicted on October 8, 1998, by a Kings County grand jury, according to the Associated Press. ...
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- Campaign to End Slavery in American Prisons
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Book Review: Breaking the Walls of Silence, by Laura Whitehorn
- Notes from the Unrepenitentiary, by Laura Whitehorn
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- Attorney Fee Cap Inapplicable to Pre-PLRA Suits; PLRA Automatic Stay Provisions Constitutional
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- University Professor Shills for Private Prison Industry, by Alex Friedmann
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- Settlement in Washington State Deaf Prisoners' Lawsuit, by Jeff Crollard
- Duffy v. Riveland: Some Comments Regarding the Court's January 20, 1998 Summary Judgment Ruling, by Leonard Feldman
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- Abuse of Discretion to Dismiss Medical Suit
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- Cowboys and Prisoners, Sept. 15, 2001
- Racist Knot of Florida Guards, Sept. 15, 2001
- Brutality Behind the Orange Curtain, Aug. 15, 2001
- Pelican Bay Guard's Conviction Upheld, July 15, 2001
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