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Beaten to Death

A widow claims in a federal complaint that sheriff’s officers and jail guards in Madison County, Mississippi, beat and tortured her husband to death after arresting him for trespassing.

JACKSON, Miss. — A widow claims in a federal complaint that sheriff’s officers and jail guards in Madison County, Mississippi, beat and tortured her husband to death after arresting him for trespassing.

Categories / Civil Rights, Government, Personal Injury

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