Sue Phillips thinks the prison guards had to know what was going to happen.

They put her son Matthew in a recreation cage with two members of a white supremacist

gang, and Matthew was Jewish.

They got a star of David tattooed on his chest.

It was sort of unlike the breastbone area, and it was just a large star of David.

You could not miss it.

You also couldn't miss that the two men let into the wrecked cage with Matt had tattoos

of their own.

Matt had tattoos that showed they were members of a prison gang called the Valhalla-bound

skinheads.

They also had cells that contained Nazi memorabilia, mugs with swat stickas on them, articles

and literature promoting white supremacy, drawings of Hitler.

We know all this from the federal indictment of the two men, which will warn you, contain

some graphic details.

It describes what happened on a Monday morning in March back in 2020 in a new federal prison

in Thompson, Illinois.

That's on the western edge of the state right along the Mississippi River.

Matt Phillips was in prison for selling heroin, and that morning in the wrecked cage, the

two men allegedly attacked Phillips, kicking and stomping his head.

There was a reference in the indictment that said they continued to kick him in the head

repeatedly, even when he became defenseless, and even when the guard shouted stop, what

if anything, did the guards do to stop this, besides shouting stop?

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