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Dallas PA: State to investigate allegations about Dallas prison guards

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Friday, September 11, 2009 10:27 am State to investigate allegations about Dallas prison guards Fed Up! says prisoners claim guards facilitated suicide of convicted murderer Matthew Bullock. By Steve Mocarsky ? Times Leader Staff Writer The state Department of Corrections will investigate prisoner allegations that guards at the State Correctional Institution at Dallas facilitated and encouraged the suicide of convicted murderer Matthew Bullock on Aug. 24. Bret Grote, an investigator with the chapter, said credible prisoners who were confined in cells near Bullock contacted the organization claiming that Bullock, though a known suicide risk, was moved from a video-equipped cell to one without monitoring capabilities. And on the morning of the suicide, two guards at the Jackson Township facility had been kicking on Bullock?s cell door, saying, ?Kill yourself, you little p****,? according to one prisoner report, Grote said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 11, 2009 (boomark / email).