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The break room of the Ville Platte Police Department, where former police officers say detectives took to detaining people illegally after the department came under federal scrutiny over “investigative holds” in its jailhouse.

The break room of the Ville Platte Police Department, where former police officers say detectives took to detaining people illegally after the department came under federal scrutiny over “investigative holds” in its jailhouse. (Edmund D. Fountain, special to ProPublica)