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Beaten Senseless at Jail Central
This fall, former Mecklenburg County Jail Central inmate Stacy Cunningham won a $49,000 jury award after a kick in the eye from a detention officer while Cunningham was restrained on the floor left the prisoner partially blind. Though state laws barring plaintiffs from collecting damages from the government will insure he never receives a dime, the jury's decision was the first acknowledgement that something terrible is going on in our county jails.
An FBI investigation and pending trial are on the docket for next year, as are multiple civil cases against the sheriff and his deputies for alleged beatings.