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Jail Abuse

A wheelchair-bound woman claims in a federal complaint that the sheriff of Garland County, Arkansas, and his officers kept her in pretrial detention in jail for a year without her wheelchair.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — A wheelchair-bound woman claims in a federal complaint that the sheriff of Garland County, Arkansas, and his officers kept her in pretrial detention in jail for a year without her wheelchair.

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