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Guard Who Identified Over 100 Prison Rioters Pleads Guilty to Contraband Charge
Loaded on June 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2012, page 24
A Kentucky prison guard who identified more than 100 prisoners who allegedly participated in a 2009 riot was later arrested for bringing contraband into the same facility where the riot occurred. PLN previously reported on the riot at the Northpoint Training Center, which resulted in the destruction of numerous buildings ...
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