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Alabama Jail Guard Receives 4 Years for Sexually Abusing Prisoners
Loaded on Aug. 10, 2016
by David Reutter
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Staff-Prisoner Harassment,
Guard Misconduct.
Location:
Alabama.
An Alabama federal district court sentenced a former guard to four years in prison for sexually abusing male prisoners at the Clay County Jail (CCJ)
Guard Jeffrey Cotney 48, ran the prisoner worker program at CCJ. He recommended who could participate and supervised the workers. In November 2013, …
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