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$638,250 Judgment Against Georgia Jail Guard Who Orchestrated Prisoner’s Beating
by Harold Hempstead
On November 9, 2021, a federal judge ordered a former guard to pay $638,250 to a prisoner whose beating by fellow prisoners the guard orchestrated at the Newton County Jail in Covington, Georgia, in 2019. It was not clear, though, how the prisoner would collect from the ...
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