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Guards Fired in Massachusetts Sex Abuse Cases
Loaded on April 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2000, page 3
Four guards were fired from the Suffolk County House of Correction in Boston in August and October 1999 on charges that they had sexual contact with female prisoners. One of the prisoners became pregnant in what was described by the Boston Globe as a "guard-inmate drugs-for-sex ring." The charges rocked …
Filed under:
Sexual Assault,
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Guard Misconduct,
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
DNA Testing/Samples.
Location:
Massachusetts.
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