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Former Louisiana State Corrections Official Pleads Guilty to Civil Rights Violations

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—June 24, 2014. Acting Assistant Attorney General Jocelyn Samuels for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Walt Green for the Middle District of Louisiana announced today that a third former state corrections official has pleaded guilty to civil rights violations related to the beating of an inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana.

Mark Sharp, 33, of Amite, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today to one count of deprivation of rights…

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