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Arkansas Guards Indicted for Shocking Prisoners
Loaded on July 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2001, page 17
Arkansas Guards Indicted For Shocking Prisoners
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Stun Guns/Tasers,
Assaults on Staff.
Location:
Arkansas.
On February 7, 2001, criminal charges were filed in a federal District Court in Arkansas against 6 former guards who beat handcuffed prisoners and shocked them with a stungun and a cattle prod.
On January 7, 1998, two reportedly unruly prisoners at the Cummins ...
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