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Honolulu Police Officers Indicted in Jail Food Scandal
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2002, page 23
From January 1995 to September 2000, while prisoners at the Honolulu Police Department were eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and prepackaged, reheatable meals, their captors were eating top sirloin and rib eye steaks at taxpayers' expense. Assistant Police Chief Rafael Fajardo and Major Jeffrey Owens are accused of using …
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