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| Massachusetts Jail Officers Indicted in Beatings |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 05/28/2001 |
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Seven jail officers were indicted on charges that they beat inmates and blocked an investigation into the incidents. The federal indictment was unsealed last week. The seven served at the Nashua Street Jail in Boston, operated by the Suffolk County, Mass., Sheriff's Department. They face charges of conspiracy, civil rights violations, obstruction of justice and perjury. Prosecutors said the officers were involved in five incidents involving six inmates in 1998 and 1999. Two of the officers were fired last year after an internal review, then reinstated by an arbitrator. The indictment expands previous charges brought against the two officers who had been fired. Both had been indicted in December on charges that they beat an inmate in the jail's medical facility in 1999. The Suffolk County Sheriff's Department has come under fire in recent months for an alleged series of incidents involving guards, including beatings, drug offenses and sex with inmates. Sheriff Richard J. Rouse has fired 14 guards in the past two years for disciplinary reasons, department spokesman Rick Lombardi said. |
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