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Loaded on Jan. 15, 2002 published in Prison Legal News January, 2002, page 31
Filed under: News, News in Brief. Location: United States of America.
California: On October 24, 2001, a riot at the Santa Clara County Jail in San Jose left 22 prisoners and one guard injured. Guards broke up a fight between four prisoners and placed them in holding cells. Twenty-four prisoners then barricaded themselves in a recreation room to demand the prisoners' ...

 

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