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Georgia: Dozens of Indictments for Prison Contraband Smuggling
Loaded on March 9, 2017
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2017, page 38
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct.
Location:
Georgia.
The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) has had a rough couple of years. Through several rounds of law enforcement stings and federal indictments, scores of prison employees, prisoners and outside collaborators have been charged for their alleged roles in schemes to smuggle and benefit from a lucrative trade in …
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