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News in Brief
Loaded on March 1, 2021
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2021, page 62
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Arizona: In January 2021, two women who worked at an Arizona state prison operated by Florida-based GEO Group pleaded guilty to having sex with inmates there. Melony Petrovffsky, 50, ran the commissary for the private contractor at a prison in Golden Valley, where she was allegedly caught on video surveillance ...
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