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VA Guards Indicted in Beatings
Loaded on June 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1995, page 7
In September of 1993 Charles Coates, a prisoner in the Greensville Correctional Center at Jarratt, VA, was handcuffed and shackled when a prison guard lifted him up and slammed him to the floor face first. Coastes says he blacked out and when he awoke another guard was kneeling on his ...
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Racial Discrimination,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Guard Brutality/Beatings.
Location:
Virginia.
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