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“Swing or Kick Rocks”: BOP Guard Alleges Conspiracy to Brutalize Prisoners at Kentucky Lockup

Loaded on April 1, 2025 published in Prison Legal News April, 2025, page 19
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Staffing, Guard Brutality/Beatings. Location: Kentucky.

Former federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) guard Lt. Terry L. Melvin was not the first to admit brutalizing a prisoner at the United States Penitentiary (USP) in Big Sandy, Kentucky. But with his guilty plea on January 24, 2025, Melvin also made a startling claim: That assaulting prisoners was …

 

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