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Sgt. William Alan Myers, a Sheriff's Deputy at the Champaign County Jail, was fired for torturing an inmate. After guards put a mentally ill inmate in a restraint chair with a “spit hood” over his head, Sgt. Myers used a Taser on him repeatedly. Myers then falsified a police report about the incident and tried to get a fellow guard, Jeremy Heath, to do the same. Guards turned him in and the Illinois State Police came in to do an investigation in which they found Myers had tortured three other inmates. In November 2004, Michael Rich was beaten and tased by Sgt. Myers, who then falsified a police report about what happened, as did Deputy Heath, who later turned Myers in.