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Federal prison lieutenant convicted of covering up assaults of inmates
BY ROGER SMITH MOUNTAIN CITIZEN PIKEVILLE — A federal jury convicted a former Kentucky Federal Bureau of Prisons lieutenant on two counts of obstruction for covering up assaults of two inmates by corrections officers under his command. Kevin Pearce, 38, of Inez, Kentucky, a former supervisor at the U.S. Penitentiary Big Sandy in Debord, was
