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  Prisons Officials Investigate Release of Geoghan Video

Associated Press, carried in WPRI
July 6, 2007

http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6753215&nav=F2DO

Boston (AP) - State prison officials are investigating the posting on Youtube of a security video. It shows guards at the Souza-Baranowski prison in Shirley trying to pry open the door of a cell, inside which pedophile priest John Geoghan was being beaten and strangled by another inmate.

The video posted last month was brought to the attention of the Boston Herald in a handwritten note apparently from Joseph Druce, the man convicted of killing Geoghan in August 2003. The note promised "The truth about officer involvement," in Geoghan's death, and gave the http://www.youtube-com/JosephDruce.

The ten-minute video shows guards tugging at the door Druce had wedged shut with a paperback, while other guards stand at the ready to enter the cell as soon as it's opened.

A Correction Department spokeswoman says inmates do not have access to the Internet and the agency is investigating how the security video made it to the Web.

Information from: Boston Herald, http://www.bostonherald.com
 
 

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