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Prison siege witnesses to move back to DPS, DOLI
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Posted on Jun 14 1999
The U.S. District Court has ordered the transfer of five prisoners to the Departments of Public Safety and Labor and Immigration after they served as witnesses against the leaders of the April prison takeover.
The US District Court said Thursday said inmates Yan Chun, Shi Gong Wen, Wang Ting Hua, Cui Xing Hao and Zhou Bo should be returned to the custody of these departments to allow them serve their respective jail term.
The five were placed temporarily under the custody of the US Marshal as material witnesses against the participants in the takeover of the Division of Corrections. They were kept by federal authorities while the investigation was going on.
Based on their testimonies, the court learned that the seven prisoners who staged the prison siege also brutalized other inmates. The six were beaten, forced at gun point to strip naked and were used as human shields during the stand-off.
U.S. Attorney David Wood said some of these inmates were charged with serious crimes and should serve the jail term required by the Commonwealth law.
