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Chicago's Brutal Jail Guards
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2004
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2004, page 12
by Matthew T. Clarke A series of brutal beatings of prisoners by guards at the Cook County (IL) Jail in Chicago has already resulted in more than $1.5 million being paid to prisoner victims with several unsettled lawsuits still in court. Two jail guards resigned after receiving death threats from ...
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