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Review of Dekalb County Sherrif Office

Hopefully with Thomas Brown or Tom Brown (the info...

Hopefully with Thomas Brown or Tom Brown (the informal version of his name he came up with to try to come off as down to earth and 'one of the people' as he attempted and failed to obtain the 4th District Congressional Seat) out of the picture, this jail will be run up to standard. For years Brown has abused his power and used his position as an outpost for networking. He did not give a damn about the safety of inmates, or their health. During a brief stay in 2011 there were several scabies outbreaks, but of course none of this was reported. The inmates are not allowed to write letters anymore, they must send and receive small postcards, and they are fed two times a day (the first time being at 5:00 in the morning where you receive your breakfast tray and a sandwich for lunch, and the second time at noon where you receive your dinner). The staff are highly unprofessional, especially the fake swat guys they call the "JEST" Team. In the intake section, the holding pods get overcrowded extremely fast. One guy in the holding pod was standing beside the door, because there was nowhere else in the tank to stand and there was hardly any air, and one of the JEST team members told him to 'get away from the door'. The guy stepped as far to the side as he could, but this wasn't good enough. The JEST officer had the door opened, and brought the guy out of the tank where three of them assaulted him with "restraint tactics". They placed the guy in a headlock and wrestled him to the floor, beat him with a nightstick, and then cuffed his hands behind his back, and lifted him in the air by the cuffs, and marched him around the pod for everyone to see while he screamed and begged for mercy in a 'ritual' the JEST team refers to as 'the three hour tour'. After 5 to 10 minutes they finally stopped. They un-cuffed the guy, and put him in an empty tank by himself and cut the phone off so that he couldn't call anyone. His wrists were extremely swollen. His crime was a traffic crime, driving without a license. All of this for standing by the door when there was no place to sit and hardly anywhere to move in a crowded pod. Of course none of this was on tape, and the jail makes sure that no one has a cell phone in the holding tanks with them for this very purpose. The feds should have taken this place over years ago when Uncle Tom Brown was still running it. The 8th Amendment does not exist here. Cruel and unusual punishment is the norm. My advice, don't put a toe out of line, don't J-Walk, make sure you check the DDS website to see if your license is suspended every single day before you leave the house. Avoid all confrontations. Don't give DeKalb Police any reason to arrest you if you can avoid it. Once you go in there, you're ass is theirs. Plan. Simple.