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Rikers Island Detainee Shot
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1999, page 12
In March, 1999, Rikers Island, New York City, jail prisoner Petros Bedi, 27, was shot in the chest with a .25 caliber pistol by another prisoner. Bedi was awaiting trial on murder charges.Jail guard Edward Quinn was suspended after the shooting for allowing Norman Seabrook, head of the Corrections …
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- A Foul Trend Emerges, by Tara Herivel
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