Tag: Inmate assault

Former Kentucky federal corrections supervisor sentenced to 5-1/2 years for leading cover-ups of inmate assaults

CITIZEN STAFF REPORT PIKEVILLE — A former Bureau of Prisons supervisor was sentenced Tuesday to five and one-half years in prison followed by one year of supervised release for leading two cover-ups of assaults of inmates held at U.S. Penitentiary Big Sandy in Debord. Kevin X. Pearce, 39, of Inez, was convicted in March after…
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Bureau of Prisons, Debord, Department of Justice, Inmate assault, Kevin Pearce, Pikeville, United States Penitentiary Big Sandy

December 6, 2023
Former Kentucky correctional officers plead guilty to assault of restrained inmate and cover-up

CITIZEN STAFF REPORT WEST LIBERTY — Two former Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex officers have pleaded guilty in a case involving the assault of a restrained inmate. The plea entered on record involves charges of deprivation of civil rights and obstruction of justice. Court documents reveal that on July 24, 2018, Randall T. Dennis, 28, brutally…
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Crime, Deprivation of Civil RIghts, Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex, Inmate assault, Obstruction of Justice, Prisons, West Liberty

July 8, 2023