A former deputy warden on the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman was sentenced Friday to 24 months in jail and three years of supervised launch for assaulting an inmate in 2016. Photograph courtesy of Mississippi Division of Corrections/Fb
Sept. 2 (UPI) — A former deputy warden on the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman was sentenced Friday to 24 months in jail and three years of supervised launch for assaulting an inmate in 2016.
Melvin Hilson, 50, pleaded responsible to violating the inmate’s constitutional proper to be free from merciless and weird punishment, the Justice Division introduced in a information launch.
Hilson was working as a member of the jail’s Okay-9 unit and approached an inmate recognized in courtroom paperwork as J.T. whereas he waited to be seen by medical personnel in a caged space of the jail’s medical unit on Aug. 3, 2016.
The jail employee repeatedly struck the inmate and knocked him to the bottom, inflicting the prisoner to undergo a ruptured eardrum and abrasions to his ear and neck with extended complications, officers mentioned.
“Hilson approached J.T. and struck him a number of instances, understanding that there was no purpose to make use of power and that J.T. didn’t pose any menace to himself or others,” in accordance with the Justice Division.
“Throughout the assault, Hilson knocked J.T. to the bottom, picked him up, after which struck him and knocked him to the bottom once more.”
Prosecutors mentioned the inmate didn’t battle again or defend himself throughout the assault by Hilson, who falsified a report to hide his assault and lied to investigators.
“This defendant abused his place as a corrections officer by unlawfully assaulting an inmate in his custody,” mentioned Assistant Lawyer Normal Kristen Clarke for the Justice Division’s Civil Rights Division.
“This defendant violently assaulted the sufferer and violated the belief that we place in corrections officers to lawfully perform their duties.”