McLean County Sheriff Dave Owens is seeking new radios for the jail correctional officers; radios with a "man down" sensor that will alert if the radio is not upright. This request comes in response to the recent brutal beating of a corrections officer by an inmate leaving the officer laying on the ground unconscious.
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