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Outrage grows over Camden jail beating

Correction officers beat an inmate in the Camden County jail.
Harry Daniels
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Attorney for Jarrett Hobbs
Correction officers beat an inmate in the Camden County jail.

More outrage is surfacing over the beating of a 41-year-old man at the Camden County Detention Center.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating the incident, and NAACP presidents across the country have denounced the beating.

A video shows at least four corrections officer wrestling with inmate Jarrett Hobbs, while other officers hit him repeatedly. They continue to throw punches even though it appears Hobbs was not fighting back. A second video released by Hobbs' attorney shows him being pulled out of the cell and wrestled to the ground.

Read the rest of this story at WJCT News partner News4Jax.