By Allyson Kraemer
14 News
VANDERBURGH CO., Ind. — Five Vanderburgh County jail inmates are charged with battery after officials say they beat a man in jail.
Authorities say the incidents are taken very seriously.
The Vanderburgh County Jail is built to hold 512 inmates and is almost always over capacity. Officials say it’s impossible to watch every inmate, every hour of the day and fights like this one do happen.
Deputies tell 14 News that on Saturday, inmate Nicholas Strader told officers that five other inmates assaulted him. According to the probable cause affidavit, Strader said he was pinned down and the assailants removed his pants and underwear, then beat him with a jail shoe.
The officer noted several red marks on Strader and he was evaluated by the jail nurse.
Strader told officers this isn’t the first time he and other inmates have been bullied and that he has been forced to dance naked on previous occasions. He says the smaller inmates and sex offenders are bullied and extorted for commissary.
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