What we know about the beating death of Reece Richeson, a 26-year-old held at the Clackamas County Jail on drug and property crime allegations, is appalling. Richeson was brutally assaulted in his jail cell on Oct. 18, allegedly by a cellmate who just a week earlier was accused of an unprovoked attack on another man at the jail.

The beating was so intense that other men in the jail hit their emergency call buttons to summon deputies, a defense attorney told The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Noelle Crombie . But it is unclear how soon jail staff responded – one of many questions the sheriff’s office hasn’t answered. By the time deputies removed Richeson from the cell, he was unconscious, Crombie reported. Richeson died at OHSU Hospital three days later.

The tragic incident raises red flags a

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