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Oregon Jail Guard Quits, Divorces Wife for Former Prisoner
Loaded on March 15, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2014, page 30
"I crushed a dude’s eye socket from repeatedly punching him in it, then I charged him with menacing and harassment,” bragged Multnomah County, Oregon jail guard David B. Thompson in one of more than 1,700 messages he posted on an Internet gaming site over an eight-month period while at work ...
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