Posted on 07/29/2022 9:31:12 AM PDT by george76
Twenty-eight female inmates at an Indiana jail are suing a Clark County jail guard for selling the keys to their cells to male inmates, resulting in a “night of terror,” .
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at least 12 women were raped, harassed, groped, and threatened after a guard, David Lowe, 29, sold the keys to their cells to male inmates for $1,000.
Male inmates allegedly wore towels over their heads to hide their identities from cameras as they entered the female prisoner section.
“The men repeatedly threatened to sexually assault the women,” according to one lawsuit. The male inmates also allegedly threatened the women if they screamed for help. Two women reported being raped.
As per the suits, not one guard came to help the women. The suits also allege that some of the women were left with various injuries, including “bleeding, vaginal tears, and genital herpes.”
Shockingly, after the brutal attacks, the guards put the women on lockdown and left the jail lights on for 72 hours. They also commandeered “authorized personal property from the women such as pillows, blankets, and personal hygiene items without any legitimate security reason,” according to court records.
Jail guard David Lowe was summarily fired and charged with trafficking with an inmate, felony official misconduct, and aiding escape. Clark County Sheriff Jamey Noel is also named in the suits, which accuse him of not training guards adequately.
“These systemic failures allowed numerous male assailants to have free run of the jail for several hours, resulting in a night of terror for the Plaintiffs and other victims,”
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Horrible! Some guards. /sarc
Is Indiana a death penalty state?
Prison guard is a very low paying job!
The guards are often part of the same population as the inmates.
The horror. Looks like some bad girls will be getting BIG settlements. Biden will probably promote the guard to head up the Bureau of Prisons.
Are you sure? I know an Indiana prison guard who supports his family on the income.
Will he have a lot of friends when he goes back to that prison ... not as a guard but as an inmate.
Women and Men should NOT be incarcerated in the same place. This is a disgusting story, and I hope all involved are tried, convicted, and lodged in their former place of employment for a LONG LONG time.
“...was summarily fired and charged with trafficking with an inmate ..”
what happened to the money which changed hands????
That was my first question, why the hell are men and woman in the same facility?
Second reply: this was a jail. Yeah, he probably was not making that much ad a guard. What a creep!
Big hairy friends....not that he'll know what they look like, because he'll be facing the other way.
Until recently I was part of my church’s prison ministry (5 years). When going in to the facilities at the metal detector there was always a poster that said “DON’T BE ONE OF THESE”. Below that were pictures of prison guards that had broken the law in one way or another, many got caught trafficking in contraband......but never anything like this. Sheesh. SMH
Anyone found guilty of this crime should be hanging from a rope.
No. No it's not.
Things are pretty cheap in rural Indiana.
He looks like one of those guys from “Oh Brother Where Art Thou”.
This occurred at a county jail, not a state prison.
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