'He made the rules' - Lawsuit claims inmates unsupervised during deadly beating
EDWARDSVILLE - A lawsuit filed by the family of a man beaten to death in the Madison County Jail accuses staff of failing to protect the victim, who lay unresponsive for two hours before being discovered. John E. Newsome, Sr., 61, was trying to watch television in a day room - where jail personnel had housed him - when Terrence T.