Corrections Officers Convicted On Civil Rights Violations

Attorneys with the United States Department of Justice announced in a May 13, 2010 news release posted at http://www.justice.gov that a federal jury in Lexington, Kentucky returned seven guilty verdicts against two former corrections officers with the Lexington-Fayette County Urban Detention Center (”FCUDC”).  According to the Department of Justice (”DOJ”) news release, the defendants were convicted for conspiring to abuse arrestees at the FCUDC, as well as for actually abusing arrestees and for obstructing justice by lying about the abuse.  As further stated in the news release, evidence at trial established that the defendants conspired with each other and with other officers who worked on their shift at the jail to physically assault inmates and to write false reports to cover it up.  Before trial began, three co-defendants, all former employees of the jail, pleaded guilty to federal charges connected to this case.