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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Dave Collins

Newly released video shows Connecticut prison officers striking inmate before he died

Inmate Death Connecticut - (Connecticut Department of Correction via AP)

Connecticut prison inmate J’Allen Jones was suffering a mental health crisis in 2018 when correctional officers struck him multiple times, stripped him naked, put a spit bag over his head and sprayed pepper spray at his face shortly before he died.

Video of the series of events was released Friday by a state judge in Hartford overseeing Jones’ family’s lawsuit against eight officers and a prison nurse, following a yearslong legal battle and after both sides agreed to certain redactions.

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