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Quadriplegic California Prisoner Baked to Death in Transport Van
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2007, page 38
Filed under:
Classification,
Transfers,
Disabled Prisoners,
Exposure to Heat,
Transportation,
Accidents.
Locations:
Alabama,
California.
A California state prisoner being transferred in 109-degree weather from a Central Valley prison to a remote desert facility baked to death in the back of a transport van after the air conditioning in the passenger section of the vehicle broke down and the transport guards got lost for five …
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