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| CO charged with official oppression |
| By The Monitor |
| Published: 03/27/2008 |
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TEXAS - A corrections officer may lose his job at the Evins Regional Juvenile Center over allegations he used excessive force to restrain an inmate, a spokesman said Wednesday. Rafael Morin, 43, of Edinburg, turned himself in to authorities Friday after a warrant was issued for his arrest on the charge of official oppression. He is at least the second employee at the Edinburg detention facility to come under scrutiny for allegedly using unnecessary force since the state agreed in February to settle a civil rights lawsuit the U.S. Justice Department filed on behalf of the inmates. Last year, federal investigators alleged Evins employees failed to protect inmates from staff abuse and youth-on-youth violence over a period of several months. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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