Ambushed assault on a corrections officer at Jackson County jail

555 Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker and Sheriff Mike Sharp called a news conference Wednesday to say four inmates in the county jail had been charged with assaulting a corrections officer. The jail is overcrowded with inmates sleeping on cots in spaces outside of cells. The facility is chronically understaffed, and in April, four former guards were indicted by a federal grand jury for beating inmates. Peters Baker and Sharp showed a video of a guard being attacked in Aug. 26 by four inmates in the administrative segregation unit, the fifth floor cell block where the jail sends inmates who have violated the rules. It shows the four lying in wait for the guard. "That was a coordinated effort by individuals inside the facility to assault that guard," says Sharp. "He was a target."

from Liveleak.com Rss Feed - Featured Items http://ift.tt/2wVCRIt