Correctional Officers Indicted in Death

[Judi Lynn]

Correctional Officers Indicted in Death
Three Correctional Officers at Overcrowded Baltimore Jail Indicted in Inmate Killing
By BRIAN WITTE Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press

BALTIMORE Aug 19, 2005 — Three correctional officers were indicted on second-degree murder charges in the beating death of an inmate at a troubled jail widely criticized for inhumane conditions, prosecutors announced Friday.

The 51-year-old inmate died in May shortly after he was beaten at the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center, a state-run facility where arrested adults are fingerprinted and photographed (snip)

Raymond Smoot was in a cell May 14 when he got into an altercation with correctional officers. He was being held on a theft charge but had a history of disciplinary problems at the facility, jail officials have said. He was beaten and died at a Baltimore hospital that night, authorities said.
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Attorneys who regularly go inside have described horrendous conditions: overcrowded cells, inmates napping under toilets, drug addicts shaking convulsively as they go into withdrawal, sick people without medications getting sicker
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1053069&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

[Trillo]

1. How are people who are treated this way in jail

who are later released expected to function well in society ever again?

[TahitiNut]

2. The Stanford Jail Experiment, Part 34,562

:eyes: In other news: "Water is Wet"

[wli]

3. probably raped too many times and had a PTSD attack n/t

[lumpy]

4. The fact that the jail

is a hole isn't an excuse for murder.

[saigon68]

5. These Guards would have been useful at Abu Ghraib

Beating confessions from "Rag Heads"