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Investigations Into the Deaths of Several Prisoners and Two Guards Reveal Rampant Corruption, Cover-ups in California Prison
Loaded on Feb. 1, 2022
by Keith Sanders
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2022, page 34
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Excessive Force (Wrongful Death),
False Statements/Perjury.
Location:
California.
by Keith Sanders
When Brant Daniel found himself in one of California’s most violent and corrupt prisons, the California State Prison (CSP) in Sacramento, known as New Folsom, he knew he was in trouble. Daniel, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, potentially faces the death penalty for the ...
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