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New Details Regarding Race Riot at USP Florence
Loaded on June 15, 2010
by Brandon Sample
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2010, page 11
More details have emerged about the April 2008 race riot that occurred at the United States Penitentiary (USP) in Florence, Colorado, as prisoners who participated in the violent disturbance have pleaded guilty after being criminally charged.
Filed under:
Racial Discrimination,
Prison Rebellion,
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General),
Shootings.
Location:
Colorado.
The riot started after members of the Aryan Brotherhood (AB) began yelling racial epithets ...
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