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Prisoner Beating Filmed
Loaded on May 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1994, page 11
The January 5, 1994, issue of the New York Times reported that two New York state DOC guards, Korey Gordon and Edward Sharrow, had been fired after they were caught on video tape brutally beating prisoner Jason McDade. McDade was handcuffed and not resisting when the guards struck him on ...
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