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Judi Lynn

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Fri Apr 19, 2019, 01:21 AM Apr 2019

Stabbed inmate 'left to die as prison guards ignored him' [View all]

Source: New Zealand Herald

19 Apr, 2019 3:36pm 2 minutes to read


Warning: Distressing content

A prison in South Carolina, US, is now under fire after staff dragged a man outside and left him to die after he was stabbed by two fellow inmates.

Shocking footage shows Allen "AJ" Capers, 32, bleeding to death in the yard of the Turbeville Correctional Institution.

The surveillance footage, which has now surfaced, was filmed on New Year's Eve 2017.

The video shows it took officers 30 minutes to show up and help the inmate.

An incident report states that a staff member walking through a wing where Capers was stabbed saw "bloody hand prints on the shower doors, and blood on the walls entering the unit".


Read more: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12223831



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