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California Guard Fights Prisoner, Faces Charges for Falsifying Reports
Loaded on July 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2013, page 49
A California prison guard who challenged a prisoner to a fight, then engaged in a cover-up to avoid getting in trouble, is now facing criminal charges for filing false reports.
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
False Charges (Disciplinary Hearings),
Sentencing,
Three Strikes.
Location:
California.
In April 2012, state prison guard Christopher Cruse, 41, pleaded not guilty to six felony charges arising from a February ...
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