Corrections Officer Punched Her in 2015 While She Was Handcuffed

By Eric Heisig, cleveland.com Madeline Chappell CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cuyahoga County and the city of Euclid will pay a combined $70,000 to a woman who said a Corrections Officer Punched Her in 2015 While She Was Handcuffed to a chair at the Euclid Jail, her attorney said. Lucille Dumas, 57, of Cleveland, said in a lawsuit filed in 2016 that Sheriff's Department Corporal Madeline Chappell repeatedly punched her, pepper sprayed her, drenched her with water and struck her in the face with a Tupperware container after she was arrested in January 2015 in a drunken driving case. Dumas later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges "The senseless and needless attack on Ms. Dumas by a Cuyahoga County corrections officer was a grave violation of her constitutional rights, and one that could have been easily stopped by other officers who witnessed it," Pattakos said in an email. "Ms. Dumas hopes that by her lawsuit she's helped ensure that the county and the City of Euclid will better train their officers to intervene in situations where their colleagues engage in needless violence against citizens, and that no one else will have to endure what she did." http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2017/10/woman_punched_by_guard_while_h.