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January 09, 2008
Georgia: Inmates Sue Corrections Officers
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Georgia: Inmates Sue Corrections Officers
Published: January 9, 2008, NY Times
A group of prisoners filed a class-action lawsuit contending that corrections officers have systematically beaten restrained inmates in prisons throughout the state, leaving two dead and dozens of others injured. The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Valdosta, names 25 guards and other corrections officials as culprits in routine beatings and torture of inmates. It also claims that they subsequently covered up the abuses by inflicting even more beatings on prisoners who filed complaints. Most of the incidents reportedly took place from 2003 to 2005.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/us/09brfs-INMATESSUECO_BRF.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Georgia+prisons&oref=slogin
Posted by lois at January 9, 2008 05:03 PM