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| Three Former Georgia Correctional Officers Sentenced for Offenses |
| By wctv.tv |
| Published: 12/05/2014 |
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WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced that Christopher Hall, a former Sergeant for the Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT) at Macon State Prison (MSP) in Oglethorpe, Georgia, and two former CERT officers, Ronald Lach and Delton Rushin, were sentenced on Thursday, December 4, 2014, for offenses related to the beating of an MSP inmate in 2010 and the cover-up that followed. All three officers were convicted by a federal jury on June 20, 2014. Hall was sentenced to 72 months in prison for conspiracy to obstruct justice and two obstruction-related offenses. Lach was sentenced to 90 months in prison for his involvement in the beating of the inmate, for conspiring to cover up the beating and for writing a false report. Rushin was sentenced to 60 months in prison for conspiring to obstruct justice and obstruction-related offenses. All three have two years of supervised release. Evidence at trial, and a series of guilty pleas that preceded trial, showed that Lach was one of several MSP officers who participated in a retaliatory beating against an inmate in order to punish the inmate for his prior misconduct. Hall, Lach and Rushin then conspired with other officers to cover up the beating by providing false and misleading statements to investigators and writing false reports. Read More. |
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