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Texas Guard Gets Probation for Killing Prisoner
Loaded on March 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1996, page 13
In the September '95 issue of PLN we reported the manslaughter conviction of Joel Lambright, Jr. He was the first Texas prison guard in history to be convicted of killing a prisoner. He was sentenced to serve a two to ten year sentence. After serving just three months of that ...
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