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News spread that the Spencer County sheriffs took Holly to a jail in the town over, Boonville. On the night of December 17, a crowd of white people from Rockport broke into the Boonville jail. Although Holly pled for mercy, the angry crowd hanged him in front of the Boonville Courthouse. [3]
It’s the second lawsuit that has followed the October 2021 incident that led to a guard at the Indiana jail being criminally charged. ‘Night of terror’: Female inmates raped when male ...
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Rockport is a city in Ohio Township and the county seat of Spencer County, Indiana, [4] along the Ohio River. [2] The population was 2,270 at the 2010 census . Once the largest community in Spencer County, the city has recently been surpassed by the town of Santa Claus .
Since 2010, the state of Indiana has allowed 84% of jails to repeatedly violate safety standards, including crowding and understaffing. Indiana’s jail safety standards are effectively ...
A mob of white Vigo County, Indiana, residents lynched George Ward, a black man, on February 26, 1901 in Terre Haute, Indiana, for the suspected murder of a white woman. An example of a spectacle lynching , the event was public in nature and drew a crowd of over 1,000 white participants.
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Lake County Jail USA: Officials boasted that the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Indiana was escape-proof and posted extra guards, but he escaped using a fake gun. Richard Matt (1967–2015) 2 1986, 13 October Erie County Correction Facility USA: In 1986, at age 19, Matt was convicted and sentenced to a year in jail.