*I guess there is a price to pay in prison for family members who talk to the media.
And the family of Cortez Berry, the 18-year-old inmate beaten savagely in a Georgia prison and photographed by a contraband cellphone is paying heavily.
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Since the headlines showing the disturbing photo of the young man kneeling between two inmates while wearing a man-made leash fashioned from material around his neck (with the other end of the leash tightly wound around the left hand of one of the other teens) went viral, he has been transferred to a maximum security prison, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A move that was supposedly made for his own protection,
The thing is, the prison he was sent to is worse than the one he came from. In fact, seven inmates were killed there since 2010.
Cortez’ aunt, Shavondria Wright, who spoke with the media when the family saw the photo, believes she is the reason for his transfer; and that it was made in retaliation for her speaking out.
Read more at EURThisNthat.
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