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Old 08.11.2007, 02:44 PM   #1
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Abu Ghraib? Guantanamo Bay? Have a look-see at the Harrison County, MS jail.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_County,_Mississippi#Corrections_system

Four prisoners have died due to unnatural circumstances there since 2002. One of them was beaten to death in February 2006 in front of cameras in the jail's booking room. In some instances, punishment there is meted out by strapping inmates to a "devil's chair".


Within this link is a horrifying first-hand account from a CNN transcipt of the "devil's chair" from a woman arrested for public intoxication in 2001.

 

Jesse Lee Williams, Jr, before he died in the hospital. The beating was apparently videotaped by four separate jailhouse cameras.
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