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46 California Prisoners Injured in Disturbance at CCA-run Oklahoma Facility
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2012, page 32
Widespread fighting among black and Hispanic California prisoners at the privately-operated North Fork Correctional Facility in Sayre, Oklahoma last year left dozens of prisoners injured.
Filed under:
Out of State Transfers,
Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Prison Rebellion,
Failure to Protect (General).
Locations:
California,
Oklahoma.
The disturbance began shortly before noon on October 11, 2011 and was described by some news reports as a riot and by others as a ...
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