Corey Chesney said he was able to walk fine when he was booked into the Weber County jail in April 2024. Sixteen months later, he’s still an inmate there, and said he depends on a wheelchair.

Civil rights attorney April Hollingsworth filed a notice of claim against the county July 23 on behalf of Chesney, 38, alleging her client has faced mobility impairment, poor treatment and religious discrimination — and has been made unable to walk on his own in the Weber County jail.

In a statement released Thursday, the Weber County Sheriff’s Office acknowledged receiving the notice of claim. The office said that it “maintains that the allegations outlined in the notice are inaccurate and do not reflect the facts of Mr. Chesney’s incarceration.”

Chesney has been in jail for more than a year fac

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