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Massachusetts: Guards Suspended, Accused of Threatening to Kill Escaped Prisoner in Scheme to Generate Overtime
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2012, page 34
Two Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) officers were suspended in May 2011, one with pay, in connection with anonymous, threatening phone calls made to a hospital where a critically wounded prisoner was being held, apparently in an effort to create additional overtime opportunities for DOC guards.On April 25, 2011, ...
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