GPB evening headlines for March 14, 2023

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The former Georgia sheriff convicted of violating the civil rights of people in his custody by unnecessarily strapping them into restraint chairs is set to be sentenced Tuesday, March 14, 2023, with prosecutors seeking several years in prison.

The former sheriff in Clayton County has been sentenced to serve a year and a half in prison for violating detainees' civil rights.

A lawsuit accuses the district attorney for Athens-Clarke and Oconee Counties of being quote "unable and unwilling" to do her job.

Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital marked the official grand opening of a new 10-story tower that increases patient capacity.