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Oregon Jail Guards Lose Access to Porn Sites
Loaded on July 15, 2009
by Mark Wilson
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2009, page 27
Guards at the Multnomah County Detention Center (MCDC) couldn’t be trusted to stay off Internet porn sites during work hours, so Sheriff Bob Skipper pulled the plug effective December 1, 2008.
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Guard Misconduct,
Jail Misconduct,
Sexually Explicit Materials,
Internet.
Location:
Oregon.
Rampant, improper use of the Internet at the jail came to light in 2007 when a guard boasted on …
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