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"In the spring of 2003, accounts of two egregious incidents made headlines in the (XXXXXXX XXXXXXX) when a jail investigator and two correctional officers came forward to corroborate the prisoners' accounts of the abuse. In one incident, an elite squad of 40 guards took over a maximum-security division of the jail in (XXXX) for the sole purpose of beating and terrorizing the prisoners. A jail investigator determined that the guards' misconduct was covered up by (XXXX XXXXXX) medical personnel, who filed false reports and refused or delayed treatment to the prisoners, and by the (XXXX XXXXXX) inspector general, who refused to cooperate with the investigation. In the other incident, five inmates in a special incarceration unit of the jail alleged that they were beaten by 20 or more officers in 2000 as they lay cuffed and shackled on the floor."
"Last month, I interviewed a prisoner who said he was beaten unconscious by guards who had wrapped handcuffs around their fists to make the beating worse. When I met with the prisoner several days later, the whites of his eyes were nearly obscured by the red from blood vessels that had ruptured during the beating, and deep lacerations were held together by staples that had been applied to his scalp. Late last year I visited another prisoner who told of being dragged by several guards through a fire of burning paper and debris that had been raging in the cellblock. His account of this abuse was substantiated by blisters and deep burn marks on his leg."
| Nazis? Pol Pot? Gulag? Gitmo? Nope. The Cook County Jail, run by Cook County Sheriff Michael Sheahan, Senator Dick Durbin's political ally and fellow Democrat in Chicago. Any comments, Senator? |
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