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Controversial Ex-Prison Official Lane McCotter Appointed Utah J.P.

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2005 published in Prison Legal News December, 2005, page 29
Filed under: Management and Training Corporation, DOC/BOP misconduct, Court Access, Judiciary. Locations: Iraq, Utah.
Lane McCotter, once the director of the Utah Department of Corrections, has been appointed to a justice of the peace bench in Utah. The McCotter era remains a high-point of prison violence in Utah's history cumulating in the death of a prisoner who had spent 16 hours strapped naked to ...

 

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