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Problems Persist at Privately-Operated Rhode Island Jail
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2010
by Justin Miller
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2010, page 30
On June 30, 2009, a former employee at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, a privately-operated jail near Providence, Rhode Island, pleaded guilty to lying to federal officials about sexual misconduct involving an immigration detainee, marking yet another embarrassing problem in a string of scandals to hit the facility.
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Private Prisons,
Guard Misconduct,
Jail Misconduct,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
Location:
Rhode Island.
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