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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The family of a man who died this month in the Richland County jail plan to pursue legal actions against the county and other parties, arguing his civil rights were violated in a place where conditions were described as deplorable and inhumane.
“That pig sty on Bluff Road needs to be shut down. You wouldn’t house animals in there,” attorney Bakari Sellers said at a Tuesday news conference, referring to the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center, where 27-year-old Lason Butler was found dead in a cell Feb. 12.
Sellers, a former South Carolina state representative who is representing Butler’s family along with Houston-based civil rights attorney Audia Jones, said they are calling for a federal investigation into the conditions at Alvin S. Glenn by the FBI and U.S. Attorneys Office, as well as calling on the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division to investigate.
Butler is the third person to die in the Richland County jail in 2022, according to a court official. At least three people are known to have died inside the jail in 2021.
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