The Ohio Justice & Policy Center (OJPC) and Washington, DC-based Norris Law Group have filed a federal lawsuit against the Butler County Jail, claiming that an alleged racially motivated, unjustified assault by a jail officer, combined with alleged systemic failures in training, supervision, and accountability, led to serious physical and emotional harm to Luis Tenelanda, an incarcerated person at the time of the assault. The lawsuit aims to hold both the individual officer and the jail responsible under federal civil rights law.
