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Guards Rape, Sexually Harass and Smuggle at Colorado Prisons
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2005, page 18
by Matthew T. ClarkeThere are new troubles at several prisons in Colorado. At a 250-bed GRW-run private prison in Brush, a tiny town 91 miles northwest of Denver, the newly-resigned ex-warden and two guards have been indicted in relation to felony sexual contact with eight female prisoners. A guard …
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