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Mentally Ill NC Prisoners Injured in Separate Incidents
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2009
by Gary Hunter
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2009, page 38
Timothy E. Helms remains paralyzed from the neck down following a confrontation with guards after he lit a fire in his cell at North Carolina’s Alexander Correctional Institution in Taylorsville. The next day, on August 4, 2008, Helms arrived at Catawba Valley Medical Center in the back of a squad ...
Filed under:
DOC/BOP misconduct,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Pepper Spray/Tear Gas,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
North Carolina.
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