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Deaths of Three North Carolina Prisoners Raise Suspicions
Loaded on July 15, 2011
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2011, page 12
by Matt Clarke and David M. Reutter
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death),
Mental Health,
Suicides.
Location:
North Carolina.
The deaths of two prisoners at the Maury Correctional Institution (MCI), a 1,000-bed close-security prison for men located in Greene County, North Carolina, have raised suspicions due to questionable circumstances surrounding those incidents. The eventual death of another prisoner who suffered injuries at ...
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