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FBI Investigates Arkansas Guard Violence
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2007, page 28
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings.
Location:
Arkansas.
In June 2006, the FBI began a civil rights investigation into a prisoner's beating administered by guards at the Maximum Security Unit in Tucker, Arkansas. The investigation, surprisingly, was requested by prison officials.
The officials were investigating an incident that occurred in the prison's dining hall on Memorial Day …
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