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Stun Gun, Four-Point Restraint Use Curtailed in Virginia Prisons
Loaded on March 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2002, page 4
Because Connecticut's prisons were overfull, Lawrence Frazier was sent to Virginia to serve his time. He didn't go home alive. He died in a Richmond hospital of cardiac arrhythmia after prison guards repeatedly shocked him with an Ultron II stun gun and shackled him to a steel table.
Filed under:
Out of State Transfers,
Conditions of Confinement,
Strip Cells,
Excessive Force,
Stun Guns/Tasers,
Restraints,
Settlements.
Location:
Virginia.
Frazier, 50, …
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