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Suspicious Deaths And Beatings Allegations Still Plague Santa Clara County, California Jail
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2006, page 30
by Marvin Mentor
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Jail Misconduct,
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Restraints,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
Location:
California.
Seven prisoner deaths and numerous reported police beatings between October 2004 and April 2005 at the Santa Clara County (SCC), California jail have local civil rights watchers calling for a grand jury investigation. Similar problems occurred at SCC in 1995 when they were studied by the County ...
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