Española Jail’s Practice of Shackling Inmates to Bench Called ‘Unconstitutional’

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(SUNfoto by Wren Abbott) This bench in the booking area at Española Jail is used to shackle inmates when the only holding cell in the facility is full, jail director Ted Garcia said. Garcia later retracted this statement.

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    Española Jail’s practice of shackling inmates to a bench is unconstitutional, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.     “(This is) clearly a constitutional violation,” Elizabeth Alexander, director of the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union,…

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