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Second BOP Guard Convicted In Assault-For-Hire
Loaded on Aug. 22, 2016
by Brandon Sample
A second Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard involved with arranging the assault of a prisoner has been convicted of federal civil rights violations.
On July 8, 2010, Michael Kennedy was found guilty of violating the civil rights of Richard Delano, a former prisoner at the United States Penitentiary I ...
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