BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) — A former supervisory officer at a Southeast Texas federal correctional complex has pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting a correctional officer beat an inmate.
Khristal Ford was a lieutenant at the Federal Correctional Complex in Beaumont. According to court documents, he told a senior correctional officer in June 2017 to "take care of it" and watched as the officer entered a cell and punch an inmate in the head three times without justification. Then, falsified documents to conceal the incident, omitting mention of the beating and portraying the inmate as highly intoxicated.
Ford can be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. No sentencing date has been set.
The other suspect, now a former correctional officer, awaits trial on federal charges arising from the incident.
