We’ve all heard horror stories of jailed inmate beatings and rapings other less equipped or ‘connected’ prisoners inside state prison walls often have to deal with, but that doesn’t make these vicious unnecessary on-goings right.
Horrified, when Facebook photo evidence that her son, Cortez Berry, was beaten inside a prison bathroom on his 18th birthday – Demetria Harris wants answers and she wants them now. The shocking photo shows Cortez kneeing on the floor with one eye swollen shut and a noose around his neck as two confident jail mates stand behind himmenacingly.
Demetria was first alerted to the incident when a friend saw the disturbing photo of her son being circulated on Facebook on Friday. “I was like OH MY GOD, what happened?” she says.
After she laid eyes on the picture, Demetria had a million “what ifs” floating through her mind and immediately contacted the prison to seek justice for her son. “Where were the guards? No one deserves this,” she says.
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16 comments:
Well now , no guards? No cops? , Nobody likes authority anymore .
Having said that , do the crime do the time , bad time that is.
What did he expect , the FOUR SEASONS hotel.
If you think it's not safe to walk in the hood , then think about the hood in jail , it's all hood.
Let em kill each other in jail , I'm tired of my tax dollars supporting these idiots anyway.
Poor baby!
mother - son ...two different last names...
Yo Baby Momma Oh your son most certainly does deserve a good beating. If he want's to go around acting like a big shot terrorizing neighborhoods making them dangerous for others he deserves to be beaten to an inch of his life. And then when he recovers he needs to be beaten again.
The prison systems aren't pretty places. If you can't handle this then don't do the crime-it's real simple. No one to blame but himself and his useless waste of breath mother.
Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time...
Black on black crime. But lets make sure we can find a white person somewhere down the line to blame.
No kidding, blame whitey. Its unbeleavable that she blames the guards when she has a picture of two black people doing this to her son. What does she expect to happen to her son who is in jail for armed robbery.
Oh of course blame the guards and not the ones who beat her son. These people have no sense of responsibility and are ALWAYS looking to shift the blame. This is one of their major difficulties and why their neighborhoods are overwhelmingly cesspools of both crime and poverty.
What would happen if your white child went to jail and was leashed and beaten with your kids photo on the internet? Don't give me the my kid is a good kid. Cops drag kids into shit as much as kids do. And plenty of good kids get into binds. You fools would be beating on the Governors door! Just remember it ain't no fun when the rabbit has the gun!
You people make me sick. People go to jail AS PUNISHMENT, not FOR PUNISHMENT.
No wonder society has so many ills with the way most of you think and feel.
(against the 'other guy'. different story when it affects you personally)
I only thing I would point out to all of you goofs, is that your knee jerk reaction of "do the crime, do the time, you worthless, criminal bastids!!) is so callous and stupid that it labels you as just that. Why?
Because HUNDREDS of people have been released after being found not guilty through DNA testing.
I wonder if you think THEY deserved beatings, rape, and torture? For 10, 15, 20, 30 YEARS??
When the state, be it a school or a prison, says "we have you (or your children) in our "custody" and they are not allowed to defend themselves (WE protect them!), then the state is responsible for their rape, their beatings, or their death.
Now, local governments are jailing citizens over DEBT!!!
Do THEY deserve rape and beatings?
Sorry to add that second thing.
I probably blew a couple of your brain circuits, huh?
Too much to think about at once?
Keep cheering.
I swear I'd Vote for you in a heart beat! Think about that. Your words are powerful well spoken and the truth!
You get what you deserve.
Uh, 5:31, um, I think you missed the "not guilty but still imprisoned for years" part, huh?
They got what they deserved?
How about their parents, who would had to watch the best years of their child's life being spent in a cage, fighting for his survival every day.
Imagine that. Every night, wondering if your son is being beaten to death right now.
Not guilty. Let it roll off your tongue. Slowly.
But they all deserved it? How? By being black? I'm thinking that's all ya got, really.....
He is sent to prison for "Armed Robbery", that means if someone had not done as he said, they could be dead. He could very well have become a killer. He is a big boy, so what if he got beat, maybe one of those guys had his mom scared to death by this guy, and it's payback day! Maybe he needed to learn so respect in prison, he certainly had none on the outside.
As the court put it, “Being violently assaulted in prison is simply not ‘part of the penalty that criminal offenders pay for their offenses against society.’” This shocking photo graphically shows how officials all too often neglect this paramount constitutional duty.
Sadly, Georgia is not an anomaly.
Some people don’t care what happens to prisoners, believing that they deserve whatever they get. But what’s done in our prisons is a powerful statement about the kind of society we are. Jonathan Simon, a criminal justice expert at the University of California-Berkeley, puts it this way:
“You have to ask yourself: If the basic story that we tell ourselves is that it’s all about laws and sending people to prison because they violated laws and harmed other people, how can we possibly justify sending them to a place where that is happening to them?”
That’s a question that Georgia prison officials – and all of us – need to keep in mind.
Some of you knuckleheads need to keep your mouths closed and not remove that doubt, if you know where I'm coming from.
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