In the 1990s, Corcoran prison guards in California were accused of setting up gladiator-type fights between inmates and encouraging or allowing prisoner rapes. True or Falase



Answer :

It’s true that Corcoran prison guards in California were accused of setting up gladiator-type fights between inmates and encouraging or allowing prisoner rapes in the 1990s.

Corcoran (COR) is a men's prison located in the town of Corcoran, in Kings County, California.  It was opened in 1988.

COR is the "most problematic of the state's 32 prisons" to quote Mark Arax's article in the Los Angeles Times in August 1996.  It was further explained in the article that 7 inmates died and 50 others were seriously injured in this prison in just 8 years since COR was opened.  It stated also that "officers and their overseers conducted inmate fights" during "gladiator days".

Previously in 1993, there was a case against detainee Eddie Dillard by another detainee Wayne Jerome Robertson. According to Robertson in his testimony at the trial in 1999, it was the prison guards who arranged his attack.

FBI launched an investigation after the CBS Evening News broadcast "video footage of an inmate shot dead by guard" on COR in 1994. An investigation was conducted into alleged inmate misconduct by guards.

From the information above, the accusation of setting up gladiator-type fights between inmates and encouraging prisoner rapes in the 1990s is true.

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