Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill dealing with 4 federal counts of violating detainees civil rights | Information

JONESBORO – Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill has been charged on four counts of alleged civil rights violations of four inmates at Clayton County Jail.

The April 19 indictment stated that four detainees, identified only by initials, were “strapped into a restraint for a period beyond that justified by a legitimate non-criminal government purpose.”

According to the policy of the Clayton County’s Office Inmate Restraint Chair, the chair can be used by security personnel to “safely contain an inmate who displays violent or uncontrollable behavior and prevent self-harm, injury to others, or property damage when other control techniques are ineffective.” . “

The restraint chair is not an authorized form of punishment.

According to the indictment, victim JA was ordered to the chair by Hill and left for several hours after an exchange with the sheriff that included curses and threats.

Victim CH was ordered to sit in his chair via text message when a Clayton County police officer sent him a photo of the defendant in handcuffs on the back of a patrol car. CH was allegedly left in the restraint chair for several hours.

The victim JH “was not combative and did not pose a threat to anyone” was placed in the chair and left for several hours during which he could not use the toilet. JH eventually urinated on the restraint chair.

Both CH and JH were cursed, named, and threatened in Hill’s chairs.

Victim GH was also reportedly ordered to the chair by Hill after the sheriff confronted GH in prison. The order was issued after GH had interacted with prison officials for more than 30 minutes, “during which time he appeared to be cooperative and compliant”.

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GH, also known as Glenn Howell, ended up in Clayton County Jail after being arrested on April 27, 2020 on charges of harassing phone calls.

The charges came after Hill got involved in a dispute between Howell, who owns a Butts County landscaping company, and Lt. Josh Guthrie, a member of the CCSO and the Butts County-based company, was involved.

Howell claimed Guthrie owed him money for a nearly full landscaping job. Hill allegedly contacted Howell on his personal cell phone and threatened to have Howell arrested.

Howell didn’t believe it was the sheriff who called and made several attempts to use FaceTime to obtain proof of identity. An arrest warrant for Howell was issued the following day.

Hill reportedly sent a “heavily armed refugee squad” to Butts County to look for Howell over a period of two days.

Howell was held in the restraint chair in a suicide cell for six hours, according to Howell’s lawsuit against Hill and the CCSO. The cuffs on his wrists were “clamped so tightly that both hands went numb and he had small wounds on both wrists”.

In a statement released Tuesday morning, Hill said he would fight the “politically motivated” case and would continue to “focus on the crime-fighting mission in Clayton County.”

“My legal team is the only one empowered to go into the details of this matter and is confident about the facts of this case,” said Hill.

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