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West Virginia Jailers Sentenced to Prison
Loaded on March 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1998, page 17
Former Grant County, West Virginia, sheriff John Leatherman, 39, was sentenced October 14, 1997, to six years in the state penitentiary on a civil rights count and one year in the county jail on a battery count. Leatherman pleaded no contest in a case where female jail detainees were forced ...
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