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This surveillance footage shows an inmate being brutally beaten while guards refuse to act.Surveillance
cameras at a US prison have captured a footage showing a Muslim
prisoner being severely beaten by a fellow inmate, as jail officers look
on.

For several minutes and in front of at least three prison guards, Hanni Elabed was brutally beaten by another prison inmate.

The 24-year-old banged on a guard station window, pleading for help, but no one came to his aid.

The correctional officers failed to intervene even when his attacker
stopped to get a drink and catch his breath, before beginning to beat
an unconscious Hanni who was convulsing in a pool of blood for a second
time.

Two minutes after he atopped his brutal assault, the prison guards
finally entered the cell with handcuffs, the video obtained by the
Associated Press shows.

As a result of the attack, Hanni suffered bleeding inside his skull and spent three days in a coma.

According to family members, he has been left with a brain damage, and his life will never be normal again.

The footage, which was shot in January, has prompted an
investigating by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as to whether
the guards violated the civil rights of inmates at the Idaho
Correctional Center.

The Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), which runs ... >>>