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Beaten Jail Prisoner Entitled to Counsel
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1992, page 2
James Swofford is a pre-trial detainee in the Franklin County (IL) jail charged with aggravated sexual assault. Upon being booked into the jail Swofford was placed in a cell with ten other prisoners. During the night they beat, kicked and stomped Swofford, urinated on him and sodomized him with a ...
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