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A Sacramento County inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison is one of three facing attempted homicide charges in an attack on a ...

“You participated with evident enthusiasm," the judge told the former prison guard Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty A British prison guard who admitted to having sex with an inmate in his cell was ...