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Monday, February 25, 2008

Investigator's Probe Ultimate Fighting In Oklahoma Prison

DENVER -- The Colorado Department of Corrections has sent two investigators to an Oklahoma prison to probe whether correctional officers staged ‘ultimate fights’ among prisoners and rewarded the fight's winner with a cell phone, corrections sources told CALL7 Investigators.The DOC inspector general's staff traveled this week to the privately owned North Folk Correctional Facility at Sayre, Okla., about 130 miles west of Oklahoma City, to investigate the complaint of ‘ultimate fighting,’ sources said. It was unclear Friday whether the details of the complaint have been substantiated.DOC Executive Director Ari Zavaras, in a phone conversation with CALL7 Investigator Tony Kovaleski, confirmed investigators were sent out to Oklahoma.
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The inspector general is appointed by Ari Zavares, so anything they investigate is tained. I have personally seen a report of theres made and filed 6 months after the incident happened that was totally fabricated to cover up the rape of a woman in DWCF in April of 2005. The filing of a false report is a crime yet they go unpunished. The corruption will go on till Zavares is replaced by someone given the clout to do so by Governor Ritter.djw

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