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No Jail Time for Former Arizona Prisons Director After Armed Standoff With Cops
Loaded on March 1, 2024
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2024, page 8
Filed under:
Government Misconduct.
Location:
Arizona.
Charles Ryan, former Director of Arizona’s Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (DCRR), was sentenced on February 9, 2024, for an armed and drunken standoff with cops at his Tempe home in January 2022. However, there will be no jail time for Ryan, 73, even though cops said he waved ...
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