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Seven Ohio Guards Fired After Killing Prisoner, No Criminal Charges
Loaded on Dec. 1, 2021
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2021, page 59
On January 26, 2021, 55-year-old Michael McDaniel entered the Corrections Reception Center in Orient, Pickaway County, Ohio, to serve a sixteen-month sentence for aggravated assault in Franklin County, Ohio. Jada McDaniel, his sister, said that he was a Black veteran of the U.S. Navy who struggled with drug addiction. “He ...
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