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Former California Guard Convicted On 64 Counts of Sexually Abusing Prisoners
Loaded on March 1, 2025
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2025, page 20
Former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) guard Gregory Rodriguez, 56, was convicted on January 14, 2025, of raping nearly two dozen prisoners at California Women’s Prison in Chowchilla between 2014 and 2022.
Though reports of his abuse began to surface in 2014, the CDCR didn’t begin to investigate ...
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