An Ohio juvenile detention center is being taken to court by four former inmates who
say they were forced to participate in organized fights.
Their lawsuit alleges that these brutal and bloody brawls were hosted by detention officers
Freddie Hodges and Joshua Zimmerman, with complacency from others.
Joining me to talk about this is the executive editor of The Trial Lawyer Magazine, Farron
Cousins.
What's the full story with this lawsuit, Farron?
Basically, what these guards at this juvenile detention facility were doing was every Friday
they had what they called fight night.
They would get these juveniles in there, force them to fight, and some of the ones who refuse
to fight, they would then pick the largest inmate there and make that person just go
beat the heck out of whoever refused to actually come down into these fights.
This was a huge ... only two people resigned as a result of this, but there was complacency
among the other guards.
There was complacency among the medical staff who would attend to these and make sure that
nobody had visible bruises or injuries.
In fact, they actually encourage them to hit each other in the bodies, so that other guards
who were not participating wouldn't be able to see the injuries.
So I take it that these two main guards are gone.
Yeah.
I mean, they resigned after the initial investigation.
Okay.
They resigned rather than being prosecuted.
Hopefully, they are going to be prosecuted.
But the rest of the story is it's impossible for the other guards and the other management
people not to have known this is going.
Is that your take on this?
Oh, absolutely.
Look, there are security cameras all over the place.
Tons of people knew about this.
Every inmate there knew about this.
We don't know yet to what extent they tried to warn anyone else, or if they had spoken
out about it.
But that's something we see a lot at juvenile detention facilities is that they do not speak
out about the abuse.
They are children.
They don't know what rights they're entitled to.
In many cases, not just this one, but in others, they get threatened with further retaliation
if they come forward with any evidence of abuse from the guards.
That's why 46 states and Washington D.C., investigations found systemic abuse at juvenile
detention facilities.
Almost all across the country, every place.
Farron, how long was this going on?
That's the first part of the question.
The second part, what alternative really does a juvenile inmate have?
Because if they've been in that situation, there really are no alternatives to them are
there?
Absolutely not.
They have absolutely no power, no authority to say.
And when they did say no, again, the guards would set the largest inmates on them.
This was going on for years.
The guards, in fact, would refer to the good old days, they called them, when they could
have fight nights, and have the medical staff involved to get down there and kind of keep
kids healthy enough to keep fighting.
The good old days is what the guards called it.
Yeah.
Hopefully, somebody goes to jail on this one.
For more infomation >> Monitoring beach erosion in Palm Beach County - Duration: 1:35. 
For more infomation >> Video: Ryan wades into gun debate during Maryland visit - Duration: 1:23. 
For more infomation >> School adds security precautions after finding threat - Duration: 1:22. 
For more infomation >> Paul Ryan: Bump Stocks Clearly 'Something We Need To Look Into' | MSNBC - Duration: 1:41. 
For more infomation >> Metro Council debates on new soccer stadium - Duration: 1:30. 
For more infomation >> Flooding at Shepard Park in Stuart - Duration: 0:49. 
For more infomation >> Video: Police investigate what led to double-shooting, crash - Duration: 1:34. 
For more infomation >> Video: 2 found dead in car during crash investigation - Duration: 1:49. 
For more infomation >> 배우 이하늬 추석인사 온스타일 겟잇뷰티 한가위 셀프메이크업 특집 방송|KT-KR - Duration: 4:49. 
For more infomation >> La curiosa técnica de pintar rostros sobre pancakes | Al Rojo Vivo | Telemundo - Duration: 0:46. 
For more infomation >> Plazo para renovar DACA acaba en medio de protestas | Al Rojo Vivo | Telemundo - Duration: 2:31. 
For more infomation >> Video: Tina Frost has a long way to recovery - Duration: 1:46. 
Không có nhận xét nào:
Đăng nhận xét