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South Carolina Guards Plead Guilty in Sex Cases
Loaded on April 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2002, page 12
In the April 2001 issue of PLN we reported at length on a series of investigations into allegations of drug smuggling by staff, as well as sexual activity between prisoners and staff, in South Carolina prisons.
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Guard Misconduct,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution.
Location:
South Carolina.
The investigation was started by a tabloid newspaper report that prisoner Susan Smith had ...
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