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| 124 years, 4 deaths: Memorial honors corrections officers |
| By lansingstatejournal.com- Justin A. Hinkley and Ken Palmer |
| Published: 05/08/2017 |
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LANSING – More than 30 years after his wife was murdered by an inmate at a state prison in Jackson, William McCallum sat in the sunshine in downtown Lansing on Sunday as colleagues prepared to unveil a memorial to Josephine McCallum and three other state corrections officers killed in the line of duty. The mood was solemn. But McCallum was glad the day had finally arrived. "It's been a long time, but I'm very happy for my son and me, especially, to get some recognition for her," McCallum said. "It's been a long time coming. She went through a lot and we went through a lot. But it seems like there's a different group of people in now (who) are really starting to recognize the corrections people and the dangers they go through. I mean, they're unarmed, standing in a group of 600 people. I don't know if I'd want to be there." Read More. |
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