Former Alabama Correctional Officer Convicted in 2018 Inmate Beating

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A jury on Thursday convicted a former Alabama jail sergeant of federal costs in reference to the 2018 beating of an inmate.

Devlon Williams, 37, a former sergeant with the Alabama Division of Corrections, was convicted of deprivation of rights beneath coloration of legislation, falsification of data and obstruction of justice, the U.S. Division of Justice introduced.

Prosecutors stated Williams repeatedly punched and kicked an inmate at Staton Correctional Facility who was on the bottom and never resisting or posing a menace. Williams additionally hit the inmate a number of occasions with a collapsible baton, prosecutors stated.

“This defendant is being held accountable for utilizing extreme pressure in opposition to an inmate and making ready a false report back to cover-up his illegal habits,” stated Assistant Lawyer Common Kristen Clarke of the Justice Division’s Civil Rights Division.

“Prisoners, like everybody else, have the precise to be free from such pointless and excessive violence,” Clarke stated in a information launch.

The Division of Justice has an ongoing civil lawsuit in opposition to Alabama, contending state inmates face unconstitutional ranges of violence from inmate-on-inmate assaults and a sample of extreme pressure by officers. The state has disputed the allegations.

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