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Colorado Guards Joke While Prisoner Dies from Easily Preventable Cause
Loaded on Oct. 25, 2016
by Matthew Clarke
The death of 35-year-old Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) prisoner Christopher Lopez at the San Carols Correctional Facility on March 17, 2013, would have been rejected if submitted as a plot for a novel. It is too unbelievable! Guards found him nearly unconscious on the floor of his cell …
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