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Four BOP Guards Sentenced for Three Federal Prisoner Assaults at Kentucky Lockup
Loaded on July 1, 2024
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2024, page 12
A former guard supervisor at the U.S. Penitentiary in Big Sandy, Kentucky, was sentenced to five and a half years in federal prison on December 6, 2023, for covering up three prisoner assaults by fellow guards. The federal court for the Eastern District of Kentucky also ordered Kevin C. Pearce, ...
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