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Attorney Who Stopped Guard-on-Inmate Torture in Rogers Prison Goes After Valdosta State Prison and GA Department of Corrections.
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January 8, 2008
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Class Action Filed Against Valdosta State Prison Officials Cites Routine Torture of Restrained Inmates and Conspiratorial Cover-Up
VALDOSTA, Ga., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlanta attorney McNeil Stokes today filed a class action suit against guards and officials from Valdosta State Prison and the Georgia Department of Corrections. The suit names twenty-five prison guards, officers, supervisors, wardens, medical personnel and corrections officials in the routine beatings and torture of restrained inmates and subsequent cover-up of the abuse.
The complaint details gruesome attacks in which prisoners are bound and restrained while guards and members of the special ...
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