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Infracting Cop Cannot Hear Own Infraction
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1992, page 5
John Diercks is a prison informant in protective custody (PC) in Jefferson City, MO. While in PC Diercks approached a prison official and asked him to make the urine samples of two prisoners "disappear" in exchange for which Diercks would supply the names of several other prisoners whose urine samples ...
Filed under:
Informants (Disciplinary Hearings),
Hearing Officers,
Damages,
Appeals,
Qualified Immunity,
Protective Custody.
Location:
Missouri.
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