Subject: Journalist needs info re jail violence
Date/Time: 06-Jun-2005

A national journalist is looking for examples of violence resulting from long-sentence inmates held over in county jails due to lack of bed space in maximum security prisons--especially a case where an ordinary jail inmate was hurt by a violent offender who should have already been sent off. Please let me know ASAP if you are aware of any such instances.

Thanks.
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Daniel Dodson
(202)486-5513

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