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| Reaching out to county's vulnerable jail inmates |
| By goupstate.com- Dustin Wyatt |
| Published: 05/16/2014 |
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On a winter morning in 2013, Elizabeth Martin sat in a small room a few feet from an inmate. This inmate had shackles on his wrists and ankles. He wore an orange jumpsuit, an array of black numbers scrawled across his back. For months, he had been displaying consistent behavioral problems within the Spartanburg County Detention Center. Jail employees often had to use physical force to control him and the inmate was often pepper sprayed — sometimes as frequently as three times a day. Martin, a 28-year-old licensed marriage and family therapist, leaned forward, she recalled. She was not nervous, afraid or intimidated. “Why do you keep doing this? What is going on?,” she asked. Read More. |
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