Sangamon County taxpayers will pay the family of a deceased inmate $60,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of Maurice Burris, who died a horrific death in 2007 due to a perforated ulcer that went untreated in the county jail. But Dr. Stephen A. Cullinan, the Peoria physician whose alleged indifference to Burris’ […]
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Jury finds jailers didn’t use excessive force
It took a federal jury less than 90 minutes last week to decide that Sangamon County jailers did no wrong during a struggle with an inmate who claimed that guards used excessive force to subdue him. Despite pleading guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge stemming from a Sept. 23, 2006, struggle with guards in a […]
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Blogger busted
On April 2, Scott Humphrey was visiting his next-door neighbor Sandy when she looked out her kitchen window and noticed that an unfamiliar man and woman were standing on his front porch. Humphrey stepped outside and called across the yard to them, and the man replied that they had been looking for him. When Humphrey […]
