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Georgia Jail Guards Charged in Prisoner Abuse Incident
Loaded on March 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2012, page 11
Three guards at Georgia’s Dekalb County Jail (DCJ) were arrested and charged in connection with a May 15, 2011 altercation involving a pretrial detainee.The prisoner, whose name was not released, had been booked into the DCJ on a disorderly conduct charge. He became embroiled in an argument with jail ...
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