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Justice Department finds Georgia is 'deliberately indifferent' to unchecked abuses at its prisons
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Guard towers loom over Lee Arrendale Correctional Facility in Alto. (File photo)
A Phillips State Prison inmate in Buford told the Department of Justice he had been held and tortured for almost four days, stabbed from behind and suffered a traumatic brain injury at the hands of his fellow inmates, according to a report.