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Court order puts focus on troubled inmates
By postandcourier.com- Glenn Smith
Published: 04/14/2014

Jerod Cook trembled as a pair of correctional officers tightened nylon straps to bind him to a metal chair, naked but for a pair of grungy orange shorts and slathered in dried blood and grime.

Ninety minutes earlier, officers at Perry state prison in rural Pelzer had discovered the convicted robber face down in his cell, surrounded by a slick of blood leaking from a gash he had carved into his right arm. Photo Gallery

Rather than take Cook to a hospital, they slapped a gauze bandage on his wound and carried him on a gurney to a cramped, cinder block room for a four-hour stretch in a restraint chair for acting out.

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