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Eight Puerto Rican Prisoners Drown in Flooded Van
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2012, page 49
On November 7, 2011 in Puerto Rico, eight prisoners died in a transport van trapped in rising floodwaters. The van contained two guards and ten shackled prisoners, all of whom were pre-trial detainees; most had been unable to afford bail and were being transported to a detention center in Arecibo. ...
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Guard Misconduct,
Transportation,
Accidents.
Location:
Puerto Rico.
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