PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Portland man says in a lawsuit that guards at a regional jail in The Dalles slammed him face-first into a concrete wall nearly two years ago, shattering his teeth and jaw.
The federal civil rights lawsuit filed Thursday by 31-year-old Chadwick Yancey describes the Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facilities as a “$17 million torture chamber.”
At a news conference, his lawyers passed out a video of the April 9, 2009, incident, captured by a camera mounted in the jail.
The administrator of the jail, Jim Weed, told The Oregonian newspaper he was aware of the tape and the lawsuit, and said, “People can allege anything.”
