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Five Homicides In L.A. County Jail Blamed On Security Lapses; 25 Sheriff's Deputies May Be Disciplined
Loaded on April 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2005, page 16
Five Homicides In L.A. County Jail Blamed On Security Lapses;
Filed under:
Crime/Demographics,
Prison/Jail Murders,
Informants,
Failure to Protect (General),
Staffing,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death).
Location:
California.
25 Sheriff's Deputies May Be Disciplined
by Marvin Mentor
After investigating five brutal prisoner-on-prisoner slayings in a six month period inside the Los Angeles (L.A.), California County Jails, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors reported that L.A. County Sheriff's deputies ...
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