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CCPOA Pimping in the California State Assembly
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1999
by Dan Pens
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1999, page 9
A self-proclaimed "whore" for the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) in July 1999 helped kill Attorney General Bill Lockyer's proposed legislation for forming a state-level prosecutorial unit to investigate alleged crimes by state prison guards.
Filed under:
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Attorneys,
Attorneys General,
Guard Unions,
State Legislation.
Location:
California.
As it stands now, only local district attorneys (or U.S. Attorneys for federal crimes) ...
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