cement-block processing building. As they moved out, the guards discovered two young white men from Chicago still lying in the back of a truck. “We refuse to cooperate, because we’ve been unjustly imprisoned,” said Terry Sullivan, in a speech that Lawson and the others had counseled him to shelve. The guards dumped the two Chicagoans out of the truck and dragged them by their feet through mud and grass and across concrete into the receiving room, where the prisoners were ordered to take off their clothes. When the two of them still did not move, guards shocked them with cattle prods until they
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