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California Private Prison Uprisings Kill 2, Injure 66
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2004
by Marvin Mentor
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2004, page 13
Interracial prison riots occurred on October 27 and December 3, 2003 in two southern California privately-contracted minimum security prisons. Because California private prison contractors have no weapons not even pepper spray the riots continued for up to 90 minutes until armed peace officers could arrive to restore order. In one ...
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Cornell Corrections,
Management and Training Corporation,
Gang Policies,
Prison Rebellion,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death).
Location:
California.
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