On Wednesday, September 14, 2016, at approximately 12:15 p.m., Brooks County SHERIFF MIKE DEWEY requested the GBI to investigate an alleged excessive use of force incident involving Brooks County Jail CAPTAIN SCOTT BOUTWELL. The incident occurred on Thursday, September 8, 2016 at approximately 9:15 a.m. GBI SA JASON SEACRIST was assigned the case.
SA SEACRIST reviewed video surveillance footage of the incident which showed CAPTAIN BOUTWELL appearing to knee INMATE STEPHEN STYLES, who was laying on the floor with his hands handcuffed behind his back and at least two (2) other jail officers holding INMATE STYLES down. During the course of the investigation, two incidents involving CAPTAIN BOUTWELL ordering inmates to be strapped into a restraint chair and being placed in a shower with the water turned on were reported. A separate incident was reported where CAPTAIN BOUTWELL was not present, but the jail officers believed they were doing what CAPTAIN BOUTWELL had trained them to do by putting an inmate in the restraint chair, placing them in the shower and turning the water on. These reports were also investigated.
As of Thursday, September 20, 2016, CAPTAIN BOUTWELL and all of the jail officers allegedly involved in the shower treatment incidents had been suspended pending the current investigation.
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