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Arizona DOC Director Blames Job Stress for Hundreds of Employee Arrests
Loaded on March 4, 2015
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2015, page 20
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct.
Location:
Arizona.
Arizona DOC Director Blames Job Stress for Hundreds of Employee Arrests
One Phoenix TV station learned first-hand the consequences of letting the target of a news story find out too much about it in advance.
Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) Director Charles L. Ryan – tipped off …
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